PaulEC wrote:

Talking of "careful planning", I noticed several people on the Affinity Forum, complaining that they were unable to purchase an Affinity licence, including a couple whose seven day free trial had finished. I would have thought that, with a bit of planning, the Affinity trial period (for v2) could have been extended until the "great announcement", when, presumably, the Affinity software will be available again.


Totally agree!  Whatever this "great announcement" is going to be it seems extremely short-sighted to actively prevent would-be new adopters of the software from actually buying and using it!