Yes, the more the merrier. But there are some tools in Affinity Photo that are relatively easy to use, which would require a significant effort (and tutorial) with Photoshop.
I've been looking for an alternative to LR panorama processing which is, in fact, very neat (RAW > DNG is great!) but a bit underpowered. Unfortunately all the more powerful tools I tried (5 of them) had an awkward workflow, were difficult/impossible to correct when they went wrong and/or too damned expensive for occasional use.
Then I noticed an out-of-date search engine reference to a Serif pano tool. Hmm... Fired up AFP and dumped my test bunch of two-dozen D810 .nef files in it. This makes a 3gb file so it's a demanding test (of my MacBook Pro, too).
Pretty soon AFP produced one of the nicest results, automatically, with competent masking of doubled elements, good geometric correction and great homologation of exposure differences (caused by variable sunlight in a 180-deg traverse across a lawn). The only problem seems to be that the AFP tool has (apart from a very useful crop-to-opaque) even fewer controls than the LR tool. Would love to see a masking tool added or the ability to save in layers for masking by hand.
By the way: I thought PTGui was by far the most comprehensible, speedieset, most-robust of the tools I tested. It had a simple default interface but great depth; excellent masking and control-point management; GPU rendering and more. But I baulked at $A300 for a 1-year full license. I found the public-domain Hugin could produce marginally better images (much more slowly) in the best case, but it's too rube-goldberg for me (like the intriguing RawTherapee).
Best, Peter