Good video, very much worth watching despite the length. New UI will look something like this:
with an option for a more classic look.
Looks like an enourmous UX improvement too, and a rewrite to QT and eliminating a lot of technical debt will make development faster.
(for package management, not weird concerns like “they’re adding an entire http library to audacity for this so they must be in the process of using it for something else”)