What if not enough people pay for the AI features? Will Affinity enshittify?

There’s always the option to go back to being a regular paid product.

Also, are these features going to be littered across the UI as greyed out buttons that show a popover prompting you to get a Canvas subscription when you hover them?

Not sure why you use future tense because the new version is out now and you can just take a look at it yourself.

It’s now an all in one UI and no longer different applications for vector graphics, photo editing, and layout. You can switch between different UIs on the fly and Canva AI is just one of those and one you can even disable:

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