Why is this program Audacity still such a dysfunctional joke?

Sorry, this is one big annoyance.

All i want is to record a bit on my Windows 11 machine, but regardless, which configuration i try, all i get is some stupid Error -9996 messages, no auto configuration, no hints whatsoever, for one of the simplest tasks, a halfways decent audio editor should be able to achieve.

I virtually tried all kind of things for almost an hour, but i couldn’t get a single bit of audio recorded, even though at one point i was at least able to hear something. Guys, it’s time to get your product working. What is this?

And yes, it keeps telling me ‘invalid sample rate’, why can’t this thing then tell me, which damn sample rate to use, instead of letting me poking around in the fog?