@louiscouture *hand typing svg in notepad*
Krita looks neat, but (a) more of a competitor to GIMP than to Inkscape and (b) depends on three dozen KDE and Qt libraries I don't have installed, not gonna go that route unless I find my existing tools inadequate.
Inkscape is generally fine but the snap-to-align works really inconsistently. I find myself fighting it a fair bit to get the features I want correctly positioned. Then again, I use it to make vector diagrams and so on, not visual art, so those limitaitons might not be relevant to its target audience.