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This is now the 2nd "clarification" that Muse group, the new team in charge of Audacity, has recently put out - the first one being here[0]. At this point, it's clear that they are taking the product in an unpopular direction. So why keep pushing an online-first privacy policy and telemetry? Certainly it is not one of the pressing needs of the core product.
Honestly, it will take some convincing to make me think this isn't nefarious at this point. At a minimum, the community is not being listened to, just placated.
[0]: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/880
Alongside the Audacity changes, the Muse group has also performed some highly questionable actions in the context of MuseScore, such as falsely claiming that a downloader script was illegal, and that they owned copyright of all sheet music on their site. Going as far as to state that they will "cooperate with github.com and Chinese government to physically find you and stop the illegal use of licensed content." [0].
Unfortunately, I don't believe the general users of audacity will ever hear about the groups actions, and will continue to use the audacity without knowledge of what has changed.
[0]: https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/5
Too much ill-will generated with this sudden takeover of audacity. Best to move on to alternatives and forks and forget about Audacity's new owners.
https://ardour.org/
> Do some people only exchange security updates and crash dumps off of physical media given in person?
Sure it's not "the norm" but personally I run a Poudriere[0] server and build all my own software packages. One server syncs the FreeBSD Ports collection and downloads the needed software source distfiles, but then none of my other machines/jails are allowed to install software from anywhere outside my own network. A lot of them don't get any Internet access at all.
That still has nothing to do with in-app analytics though.
[0] https://github.com/freebsd/poudriere/wiki