If you have Photoshop and duplicate Steps 1-6 above (the equivalent of them), you will understand what I mean in point B above. More specifically, in Affinity Photo (AP), dragging the Coverage Map curve to the upper left makes the text a tad more bold than what it is in its optimized state. But more worrisome than that is that the dots (squares in the bitmap) don't line up perfectly in AP. They do in Photoshop. What I mean is, say you have 2 squares. You want to make them align with each other at 45. So you put the top-right corner of the lower square up against the bottom-left corner of your upper square. That is perfect alignment. That is how your fonts look in Photoshop with no anti-aliasing. But in AP, you cannot achieve that via the "Coverage Map" curve. The bits (squares) are not in perfect alignment. You can make the text look bolder, but again, the alignment is not perfect.