Options have a maintenance cost. Pulseaudio is the current Linux audio stack, like plain ALSA was before when it replaced OSS.

The current one is PipeWire (it's much better)

But PulseAudio API is still the "standard".

	▲	ahartmetz 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		True, but the bad outcomes are mostly a thing of the past. PipeWire has better reliability, lower CPU usage, and lower latency.