It's difficult to expect clients to do that with their DIY art files. It usually takes a good bit of experience with graphics software to navigate those hurdles. Exporting art to other applications doesn't always go so well. afdesign files in email from customers I want to be able to open those files properly. Spending $50 on a somewhat more basic application is easier for small business owners.
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It's a really big ask to expect someone not doing graphic design work full time to blow $500 on a pro-level vector drawing application like CorelDRAW or get on a $54 per month subscription with Adobe just to do some basic DIY graphics work. We get a decent amount of client-provided artwork, a good bit of which comes from small businesses. The second reason is just having the app on hand in case the popularity of Affinity Designer really grows. Plus the iPad version gives me another drawing on screen app to go with Vectornator and Illustrator. The first reason was the apps were priced dirt cheap when I bought them (50% off COVID-19 sale), so it seemed like no harm to give the application a try on both platforms. I bought copies of Affinity Designer for my PC and iPad Pro for a couple reasons.
Currently I have CDR 2020 and CDR 2018 both installed on my work desktop PC due to some annoying font table bugs in CDR 2020 that never got fixed. I'm waiting to see what Corel comes up with for version 2021. CorelDRAW and Adobe Illustrator are still my main go-to tools.