Audible UI
While not needed, it would still be a huge quality of life improvement. Adding audio feedback to Blender would make the Blender experience much more enjoyable. Also, it'll help catch any accidental inputs you might've made. It could also be personalized by adding your own audio, and if it were to go further, it could have its own community extension tab like the Blender Themes. However, having this feature would probably cost some CPU usage, so it'll be best as an add-on that could be enabled or disabled.
The example shown is edited as an example using Wii U menu SFX)
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As much as I like your demo and appreciate the effort you put into it, I feel like this would just end up being a gimmick that either annoys people, or flies under the radar completely. In my experience, the only applications that have responsive menu sounds are games, and probably for good reason. While this could have potential use as an accessibility feature, the discoverability of items in Blender's preferences would probably create such a low number of users that the development and upkeep burden would not be worth it.
As I did say it should be a customizable addon, meaning you could tweak how loud certain objects are or what even makes a sound (The example shown was just how I would personally have it, but a better example should have been minimal by default). The reason why I thought of it was because of Gmod. When trying to animate on it (and failing), I really loved the sound queues, which I've never had a second thought about it being in 3D software until now.
However, I do believe you're right about it flying over the radar now that I'm thinking about it. There are only 202 themes in a large community, so this would make sense. I'm also not a coder, so I'm not too sure how hard it is to allow the UI to make sounds.
Haptic feedback in mouse and keyboard may have more sense, but market is not there yet, so is the hardware.