I really hope they have a big overhaul coming for Audacity. It's a powerful tool but the UI is (at best) severely dated. Tantacrul's initial analysis of Audacity's UX had me hopeful that there'd be rapid progress towards modernizing it.
Tantacrul's original video was very good, if you haven't seen it already.
Here's a very straightforward example: zoom. The shortcut keys for zoom are ctrl 1/2/3, rather than ctrl +/-, or even just +/-. Further, the zoom options are in/normal/out/selection/toggle. None of those options will zoom to the full audio clip. Instead, to do that you need to look under "track size", which has the options "fit to width" (ctrl f) and "fit to height" (ctrl shift f). The CPO at the company where I work likes to say "if you do something differently from the rest of the marketplace, you need a damned good justification for doing so".
I get that Audacity has grown organically as a product over decades, and so its user interface may have preceded various conventions that have arisen over time in software, but it is extremely idiosyncratic.
