[PaulDavisThe1st]

anyone who thinks that pipewire - pipewire! - is "a simple solution" understands nothing about pipewire.

don't get me wrong, i use pipewire all day every day, and wrote one of the APIs (JACK) that it implements (pretty well, too!).

but pipewire is an order of magnitude more complex than pulseaudio.

[herewulf]

As an end user hand assembling desktop services on non-Systemd distros (Artix, Devuan, Gentoo, Guix) over the years, and thus had no concern about APIs, Pipewire just works and PulseAudio gave endless trouble.

My 0.02 bits.

[account42]

As another user on Gentoo, pipewire is a never ending pain in the ass full of "magic" behavior and weird bugs. I mostly skipped pulse though so it may be simple in comparison to that.