yes, but most of what you say relates more to documents and images than drawing

for example, would it be too much to ask for a freehand tool that does not wobble all over the place when you draw ?

it seems to be anticipating where you might want to go next which it cannot know, and therefore it is unhelpful, nay from my point of view unusable

and when the program has smoothing the line can redraw on a different path than you drew because the smoothing is applied after the line is drawn; the program is throttled due to necessary compromises made back in the day when PC computing power was far less

it is not a question of modifying, it needs rewriting, as serif did when they moved to affinity, but there is no cost effective return for xara in this, it's not going to happen

so why not have the best of all worlds in one package
if i find a program such as this I will let you know, meanwhile the best tool for the job; I learned long ago that anything claiming to do everything is too good to be true