Well I started with Xara X1, and have gone through Xara Pro 4, 5, and now Xara Designer Pro x11, and I am a professional cartographic illustrator creating maps for the tabletop roleplaying game industry, and video game strategy guide content creation - I'm one of the top game cartographers in the world, and I use Xara almost exclusively. I do use 3D software for elements in some maps (and some maps completely done in 3D), but I don't use Adobe anything, Affinity nor any other graphics software. Xara is the software that makes my artistry work. So different strokes for different folks - maybe Xara is not for you. I have over 1000 published maps, and almost all of them were created in Xara (those maps that weren't completely created in Xara were finished in Xara.)
I have a long running thread in the Xara Graphic Chat forum called Fantasy Maps created using Xara, if you'd like to see samples of map work of mine created in Xara, to see what you can do with the software.
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