Illustrator (aside from being part of Adobe's software-rental scam), has been abandoned for years. Affinity Designer is also basically static, as simple-but-important feature requests or bug reports go ignored year after year. I mean... there's no way to set a layer as non-printing, despite continual requests for it. If that's difficult to implement, then the software is hopeless anyway. You also can't enter exact sizes for multiple objects at once. Affinity seems to do the most obscure and dumb thing possible when you try to accomplish simple tasks that are well-understood in every other similar app.
Applications are simply not important to any for-profit company anymore, so we're stuck with the current state of the art, or worse, hideous regressions like those that plague Microsoft Office. Ugh, Word is a depressing shitshow now.
Not bad! And I enjoy that its default selection mode is the one I find most important in vector-art applications: select only things that are totally enclosed by the selection marquee.
Illustrator isn't even capable of selecting this way as an option, which makes it a monumentally tedious, deal-breaking PITA to use. And, of course, people have been complaining about this for decades now. Ignored by Adobe. So much for their "subscription model will allow us to do more timely bug fixes and enhancements" lie.