I offered Affinity as a substitute because I hate Adobe's business practices. The subscription model for PS is a ripoff for ordinary consumers. And even when you are able to "buy" a program outright, like Elements, you have to repurchase the program every few years because Adobe doesn't update the programs to run with newer computers.
Affinity does nearly everything PS does for most photographers, on a better-written platform, at a tiny fraction of the cost. To me there's no reason at all to keep feeding Adobe. They've done nothing to earn our loyalty.