I'm actually pretty interested in the Maricopa county findings. I did some searching, but I cannot substantiate this claim that these sources have demonstrably rebuked the audit. Rather, there's something even more interesting going on here.
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Firstly, the ballot totals. The private firm and the state counts are different according to the state, and the state won't say by how much.
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Secondly, the handling of ballots. There are some 72,000+ absentee ballots that were counted in such a way that does not follow the standard protocol. Nobody refutes this happened, people only refute that this matters. I find it hard to think this doesn't matter.
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Thirdly is the reveal about the breach of voting machines. Select voters were informed in writing after the fact that their votes were processed by breached machines that the state now seeks to decertify as of last December (render illegitimate to use for future elections).
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What is bizarre about this third one is that this wasn't made public. I suppose this makes sense since this information was swirling back when the election was in question, and could've been used as justification for recounts/investigation.
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Fourth is the firm itself and its scrutiny. It seems to have been hired by a group with connections directly to Trump, and an oversight committee has already launched an investigation into it before the audit was even finished. Nothing concrete here yet.
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Finally is the denial of support for the audit. Documentation, passwords, routers, etc have been denied to the auditing group by the state for various reasons, usually "we don't have access" or "security risk". Not sure how it could be a risk given the machines are decertified...
Honestly I don't think it's weird at all, but it is depressing.