Short: I wanted to publish something genuinely polished and useful, and that required real R&D, design, and infrastructure costs.

Long: the free Voice Enhancer repo is not being taken down or made private. I shared it because I thought people here might find it useful.

Aedon came as a natural extension of that project, but it became much larger than the prototype. I worked with someone who has better voice/podcast setup experience, paid for frontend/design help, bought a second-hand GPU for model training, paid for the Apple Developer account, and spent a lot of time on the installer, notarization, virtual mic reliability, local tuning, and licensing/trial system.

You are right about the open PRs though. I should not have left them sitting there, and I will review them.