Affinity being prosumer puts it perfectly. If you only work on your own on smaller projects it does everything it needs to do but as soon as you work with other people professionally and have to share files? There‘s sadly no alternative for Adobe whatsoever. I am very happy with Affinity 2 but it‘s not a standard in the industry.

Personally I can not recommend using Adobe‘s AI features at the moment. I had to work on completely AI generated images for difficult customers and I assure you it was anything but pleasant. In the end it would‘ve been cheaper, faster and give far better results to use a stock image and edit it traditionally than being told to fix this and that with endless prompting.

Being told that I don't have them doesn't help me understand the issues professionals have with GIMP. I've heard a lot of hobbists say the same thing only to list a few features that GIMP already has and then give up because they don't actually care enough to try it for more than 5min.

I'm curious whether some professionals are the same. I suspect that some will and likely more won't but if nobody can give examples it feels weird to be arguing about it.

So if you are a professional I'd be curious to hear more.