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for me the disadvantages of xara are almost all on the raster side - for example, because affinity have integrated true raster and vector I can import a PSD with clipping layers into affinity designer and they will be presverved - this just does not happen in xara, they are lost because the way it handles raster, whilst fine for it's intended purpose, it not a true integration, it's a clever, but limited, manipulation of bitmap fills
Xara is very much a jack of all trades and when clients sent me assets in Adobe formats Xara was not up to it, it was imperative to have access to the Adobe Suite, but I gave up my Adobe subscription over a year ago - one year Adobe - clean!