I think the logo’s supoosed to evoke a lowercase letter ‘a’ (for Audacity).
The video talks a lot about bending over backwards to not lose existing users. They could have kept a smaller version of the waveform between the earcups as an homage to the original icon.
As long as y’all maintain your altitude.
And avoid getting raptured. Otherwise we’ll hear no end of your Arch installs.