> I have tried this, but adding symbols to the file becomes a giant PITA. I use Affinity Designer for this. It exports artboards using a trivially detectable p

> I have tried this, but adding symbols to the file becomes a giant PITA. I use Affinity Designer for this. It exports artboards using a trivially detectable pattern, which can be easily turned into symbol elements in a compilation step. I made a feature request for an option to do this natively, but it never got any traction.