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Affinity Photo is very different from Lightroom and it is very good for general purpose raster editing including illustration.

I've used GIMP a lot and finally switched to Affinity Photo+Designer. It is, I must admit, much better for almost everything, the only thing GIMP still handles the best is selection and cropping.

Affinity Photo even supports Photoshop plugins (although I have not tried that).

Affinity Designer fits somewhere between PS and AI.

I find it better than both for doing web design and game graphics.

Affinity photo is more lightroom + photoshop mix

Affinity designer is illustrator first + photoshop pixel support

I prefer using AffinityDesigner and AffinityPhoto, fast development, loads quicker, the export tool is way better than adobe products, just all around easier to use.