Recording Music On Computer win11

In Audacity 3. You are shown two music tracks , right and left. In 4.0.1 you can now chose to record on one but you still just shown a single track that appears to be a single mono track. I do a recording with right and left tracks and then edit right and left to add music instruments , sounds or change the melody for difference between right and left track. this software limits everything I try to do. I can’t set Record to always record in stereo because it doesn’t work?