I love (and own) all the Affinity products, but Designer still has a long way to go to get to feature parity with Illustrator, imho. Good news is, they are always improving.
Designer feels like working with an arm tied behind my back. I absolutely hate Adobe's subscription model, software philosophy, and nearly everything else about them. But Designer has a long way to go to being productive.
As someone who is not professional in graphics but need to do some vector graphics for professional work, I like Affinity Designer very much. Once it clicks, it’s actually easy to use and quite productive.
That said, its probably not a marketable skill by itself as most places would look for the “Adobe Illustrator” keyword.
