Pulseaudio has always been heinously glitchy and less than fully compatible with applications. Workarounds lead to a big mess after OS upgrades.
This could be handled while there was enough of a community to actually fix all the nonsensical issues that cropped up. There's just not, anymore. The system is too big, and gets too broken, for the issues it generates to be resolved easily enough to be worth the effort.
When an OS upgrade makes me have to force-restart ALSA right after booting, and nobody has the slightest clue what happened in the upgrade to cause that, then screw the upgrade. Screw a clean install too. Not. Worth. It.
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