I don't know,Me? I don't care how terribly old a piece of software is, I care only if it works for my projects. I've been using cool edit for 15 years I think. Always works. I never upgraded to adobe audition's redone version because it really does not add much. BUT here's the great news...
Adobe audition 3.0 works in wine on linux...
I can not tell you how happy that makes me.
Cooledit/audition is awesome, virtually unlimited audio tracks, good fx,
quick editing. Having 128 or 200 tracks of audio is awesome.
So I for one am really happy they released those. If not, I don't think I would
have thought to try to install adobe audition on linux. (cool edit does not work)
Good for them, letting go some old versions. And thank the digital gods I
can work on music projects completely on linux now.
I'm going to go try some of the other progs now...
Steven