As far as I remember, Audacity’s maintainers, previously just some volunteers with no organisation, decided to sell the ownership of the project to a company with some guitar platform. Nothing changed at first, they employed the maintainers to work on the same project they were already working on.

Then they started adding controversial telemetry (outcry convinced them to switch to opt in, I believe) and some soft forks appeared. I vaguely also remember hearing that there’s some contract that the company owns the source code, so relicencing to a proprietary licence is easy and possible in future. All the new software the companty launches is proprietary, and there’s signs they want to tie it all together into a single suite.

Nothing majorly bad has happened to Audacity, yet. But decisions are no longer community driven, as shown by the telemetry drama. I fear it’s a matter of time.