God out of all the software I've used over the years, to see Audacity go to hell like that is sad. I was not expecting that. And to think once upon a time, i replaced a little program called Cooledit Pro (which was bought by Adobe if I recall), with Audacity.

Don't know if you can call this "enshittification" as that implies it got progressively worse. It was bought out by a corporation and immediately turned to shit while also being neglected.

the trademark got bought. it's still FLOSS, and they pledged to keep it that way, for whatever that's worth. code can't be retroactively un-gpled, so if they did decide to close it down they couldn't just take it offline, only do new development in private. the big fishy thing was that they added a CLA to their repo, which only affects developers. as an end-user you're fine.

also, the "crap" was a draft proposal of opt-in telemetry, which was subsequently scrapped. the company in question is based in the EU, anyway, so they would have to abide by the gdpr for any collected information.

the hackaday series on this is probably the best summary.