@Justine:
I have closed your report - Bill is most definitely not a “Troll”, nor do I think he was “abusive”.
Bill (like me) is one of the official Forum Elves who manage this Forum on behalf of Audacity users. We along with Steve and Koz on this Forum used be core members of the old Audacity Team (before it was bought by Muse) - we- provided QA, user support and documentation.
Bill has made a particularly stunning addition to Audacity, the “Amazing Imagemap” on the front page of the Audacity Manual which lets you click on Audacity GUI elements in the image to take you to the relevant page in the Manual - this was Bill’s idea and implementation. When we showed this to the developers at our Team meeting back in 2014 they were totally gob-smacked and amazed by this.
I agree with Bill that Audacity is not for everyone - for some folk there are better tools, but for millions of us Audacity is an extremely useful tool - and you can’t argue with the price …
Top Tip
Like you, I also search for in and out points. I hate Audacity’s scrubbing for this, it is totally unlike any other scrubbing I use (e.g. video editing on my Mac). What I use instead is the Timeline Quick-Play that Steve provided many years ago.
See: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/timeline.html#tqp
Peter.