I haven't tried them. If going professional, I'd stick to Adobe's suite, since they're industry standard. If doing it for yourself and occasional use, learning open source software can be much more rewarding and flexible. Affinity's software might not be around forever, or might change so much you need to relearn it.
anyone else wonder if this "contributor level" system where you have to talk a lot is actually a way to identify people in court cases? linguistic analysts have enough info if you make enough posts and i'm pretty sure HLB stuff gray zone of legality depending where you live