It has served its purpose with a shoddy UI. Can you blame them for wanting to improve it? Telemetry helps with that.
No, user testing helps with that. It's something you do before you ship.
For an application that is used by hundreds of thousands to millions of people, user testing does not scale and will never be representative.
Like loan sharks care about helping poor people. No thanks to predators offering help. Audacity ui worked fine for me for over a decade. Your opinion otherwise doesn’t justify such rapacious behavior on the part of Ultimate Guitar, who basically hijacked a community project for their own ends. Bad faith actor, and I’m having trouble seeing your comment as innocent. Who do you work for here? I find your association of good ui and telemetry to be highly suspect and certainly not logical. Feel free to correct my ignorance and elaborate on your strange proposal. NSA backdoors don’t make themselves, there’s always that special someone on every committee
I’d take a shoddy UI and no spyware over a good UI that’s spying on me despite being an offline application. I’ve used Audacity for years and I shan’t be upgrading until a spyware-free fork is available.
Ultimate Guitar have a history of abusive behaviour towards open source projects and I sincerely hope this is a PR catastrophe for them.