Who would I have to talk to to get the advanced zoom options and the time shift tool back? The advanced zoom, even in waveform, is used to have fine control and observation of the shapes, where you can compare similarities in height and synchronization between exact peaks of tracks. In other words, they are very useful, even if “designers” think they are not in the waveform view. The time shift tool is strictly necessary for a faster flow because now I have to CAREFULLY click on a small rectangle in the clip when before I could simply click ANY PART OF THE clip, making the editing much faster. Please, don’t take something good and ruin it until it’s crap just to make it look better or for any other reason. Audacity is FUNCTIONAL, don’t take that away from it.
You are very free to use any of the old versions you think are better.
Is this the official response to real feedback? The program actually will be more functional with these features back and the official response is: feel free to use the old versions, we’ll do whatever we want?
Not even a consideration of the reasons why the program would actually get better if the features returned?
For respectful feedback I can give a respectful response.
I could have pointed out that Ctrl+dragging in the multi-tool moves clips and that I’m considering adding that behavior for Audacity 4 to the normal select mode. Or that I’m considering making the vertical scale draggable (similar to ocenaudio). And that I’m not particularly worried about reinstating the old features because I think the envisioned behavior is better anyway.
But you’re ultimately right that we can do whatever we want and that, while we consider feedback, especially when it’s coming in a respectful and constructive form, your opinion on how Audacity should be is just one among millions.
Neither was OP, so I think we’re even.