There are articles about Affinity Photo/Topaz Plugins both on this forum and the Affinity forum … see this article to recover the mask:
Some of the things that you are saying should really be placed in the product feature requests section as they are not bugs but things you want to fit your workflow. For some of the issues you should raise a support request, e.g.:
- Exported PNG’s
Things such as:
Are already included in the Tri-Map mask which is a mask as you would find returned to a host in the case of ReMask being used as a plugin…