There is a lot of flamebait on HN these days. People just regurgitate talking points they see elsewhere without any context.

In this case the wxWidgets fork has existed for a very-very long time and has nothing to do with the acquisition.

Then this is what they should be focusing on. Although, for example, to clean up excessive modals with a lonely OK button that annoy you after every operation, you don’t need to fork wxWidgets, and you need exactly zero telemetry to know it’s annoying.

Audacity was already using its own wxWidgets fork before the acquisition.