i'm trying to learn affinity designer but man the thing just constantly feels like it's gaslighting me. what is the point of snapping if you're gonna do this shit when i join shapes. why can't i join these two points, why have you disabled that option for no reason. why the fuck can i not even snap to this angled edge. if i draw a six-sided polygon why can i only snap to the 90 degree sides of the shape not any of the actual sides itself. i am not cut out for this shit man!! what is the point of being able to render at any size in vector if it takes me a million years to get a shittier result than something i could do in a raster program in like 12 seconds!!
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in reply to @erica's post:
iirc you can pick a point and just hit the backspace or delete key to remove it and it won’t destroy the path like it does in adobe illustrator
that's what i did in this instance but like... (screaming into void here) why does the snapping work like this. why do i have to clean up the shapes like this when i make them, an error that is also caused because i had to make a bizarre concession in the first place from being unable to snap how i actually needed to
this feels less like i'm learning new a language and more like i'm understanding how to soothe a child's tantrum or something it's really annyoing
i remember default snap settings in AD being horrendous. in View > Snapping Manager, you can control what AD will snap to, how close do you want your cursor to be before snapping and what objects to consider snapping.
here's my settings, i tried making a couple of quick weirdo shapes and it seems to work fine for me. you can tinker this however you want, the most important settings in your case would be Snap to object geometry and Snap to shape key points i think. the less options AD
when you snap to an edge of a path, it should light up like this
you also have these settings on the top bar too which can be of use 
designer is so infuriating tbh, please youre a vector program you guys should know how to do analytic solutions to your shapes, why is illustrator somehow better in this regard