I think this was tongue-in-cheek. Nobody would actually want to take a native C/C++ Audacity, port it to WASM, and then wrap it in Electron to make it a "desktop app" again.
Guess we’ll see then :)
[1]: https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=114242&s...
Has Audacity ever had safety issues in the past?
Because it sounds like you'll be going to a lot of effort to prevent a problem that had never surfaced in over a decade of use.
So of course they freak, when it is suddenly creeping in, in something they trusted.
In the second case, intentions have been hidden or they have changed, which obviously erodes user trust.
It wasn’t clear it was opt-in (although maybe the code was clear?).
Either way, adding telemetry (especially to open source) is obviously going to cause a ruckus, so they obviously mishandled the situation.