Having working audio input (microphones) and using Alsa are often diametrically opposed goals. If your use case is very simple Alsa playback is fairly trivial.

Having working audio input (microphones) and using Alsa are often diametrically opposed goals. If your use case is very simple Alsa playback is fairly trivial. But anything beyond that usually is going to require significant configuration on the user's part and when the user needs to configure things it usually isn't going to be done very well; which is going to cause endless headaches for things like Mozilla project.