Any recommendations?

Please reconsider.

Since Affinity have been recently acquired by Canva, many of its users doubt that perpetual license will be respected.

Just look at the comments of its announcement.

Being recently acquired by Canva stops me from trusting that deal in the long run.

Even the casual Zoom meeting is a breeze because of the Flatpak client.

Coding isn’t always compensated. Open source projects thrive because of the work of developers that don’t get paid in most cases. That doesn’t stop them (although it’s probably because they do other work and can spare time and money).

My point is that both, art and coding, don’t require compensation. Many people do both for the sake of it.

That doesn’t mean they don’t deserve compensation (in the form of donations). They do, most than any other.