12 years here. I finally let pulse back on my system a year or two ago when after enough upgrades (notably Firefox) my sound config went from perfectly fine for

12 years here. I finally let pulse back on my system a year or two ago when after enough upgrades (notably Firefox) my sound config went from perfectly fine for years to unreliable. At least pulse is better now. And more stable than the version I have to use on work machines (ubuntu). No dependencies on systemd required, though, that project will never be installed. OpenRC is great, and it's simple enough that it doesn't need any team of paid devs figuring out how to cram more features into it.