Is there any improvement on how Affinity Publisher 2 handles multi column layout? This was one of the neat things that InDesign finally imported from Ventura Publisher etc. who did this in the early 90s: You can have a paragraph style span columns. Without that, the interaction of sections and columns often gets rather tedious.

AP1 was a lot closer to the PageMaker style of things. (I don't have a use case for vector graphics, and my limited bitmap needs are more than served by Pixelmator, Gimp, ImageMagick and Paint Shop Pro 7 via wine)