Challenge 2: Why Audacity Beats "Just Use Fairlight, It's Already Open" — Solution Walkthrough

The answer:

Having DaVinci Resolve open doesn't change what the actual job is. The
podcast recording in this scenario is standalone audio — no video
involved at all — which is exactly the kind of task this chapter
describes Audacity as being built for, and exactly the kind of task
Fairlight is not primarily built around.

Why Fairlight is the slower choice here, even though it's already running:

Fairlight's own interface is built around a multitrack timeline synced
to picture. Opening it for a job with no picture at all means working
in an environment designed around a synchronization problem this task
doesn't actually have. Audacity's simpler, waveform-based interface
gets straight to the actual editing — reading the waveform, selecting
the noisy or clipped sections, applying cleanup — with none of that
unnecessary video-sync structure in the way.

Why "it's already open" isn't a real efficiency argument:

The warning box makes this point directly: having a tool already
running doesn't make it the right tool for an unrelated job. The
actual time cost of opening Audacity separately is small compared to
working in an interface built for a different kind of task.

WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER
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This exercise checks that "which tool is already open" is correctly
recognized as a poor substitute for "which tool is actually built for
this job," per this chapter's own warning box.