Yes, it was a necessary endeavor, but the implementation never lived up to the task. I'm glad Pipewire is now getting traction, as I fear PulseAudio will never

Yes, it was a necessary endeavor, but the implementation never lived up to the task. I'm glad Pipewire is now getting traction, as I fear PulseAudio will never be able to be the stable and robust solution we need for audio on Linux. Particularly, it handles badly sleep modes, hot plugging sources, and BT, which in 2021 is not acceptable. I regularly have to set things up manually using pavucontrol. But yes, we needed it, and I thank the people that tried.