The question is though whether you installed Audacity directly, bypassing your distro’s repo - or you are just taking whatever your distro’s repo gives you, including when it updates.
If I use Audacity / Help / Check for Updates … then it will go to the Audacity web site and of course I am way out of date, so it wants to update. Otherwise without ever doing anything it will just update in accordance with the distro’s repo (which may be never, or frequent, depending on updates coming from the project but also depending on the level of interest by the distro).
Given this telemetry issue, it is possible that some distros have adopted a policy of staying on a relatively old version and they might only fix security issues (and there may be no such issues). When Ubuntu 24.04 comes out in April, I will have to see what version of Audacity it is offering (if any).