As a researcher who composes a figure or two every now and then, I find Inkscape to be far more intuitive than Affinity Designer. Affinity makes simple things hard. Creating arrows was not a feature until recently, resizing multiple selections would mess text objects, and changing the size of the canvas requires copying all content to clipboard and creating a second, separate canvas. Not to mention that exports, which should be simple, are also hard to understand for beginners / non-designers, and the gazillion of menus makes it impossible to ever find what you need.
After many years of waiting, I'm happy to see Inkscape jumping to MacOS too. Kudos to all devs and contributors that made this possible.
As a researcher who draw figures quite often... I use PowerPoint. That sounds like a joke, but the ratio features/learning curse is perfect. On the contrary I was never able to draw anything with Inkscape, and I give it a try every few years or so.
> Not to mention that exports, which should be simple, are also hard to understand for beginners / non-designers
That’s strange, I’m not a designer and I found it very easy to understand, and very powerful too — that is unless you don’t know there’s a separate Export Persona. Guess a tiny amount of prior experience with Sketch helped a bit in my case.
After many years of waiting, I'm happy to see Inkscape jumping to MacOS too. Kudos to all devs and contributors that made this possible.