We only like audio or video on a page when the point of the page is audio or video. Youtube. Conference slides. Podcasts.

And even then I have a bad habit, in part due to multiple monitors, of trying to mix tabs and windows and sometimes I cannot for the life of me locate the tab that is playing when someone needs me for something. I may need a new rule about where such tabs need to live (separate window, one monitor, virtual desktop, something).

then you have messaging apps that need to make notifications and they can't. The way google blocks audio at this point is not good.

What would be nice is to be able to grant temporary notifications. Probably 20% of the time I'm not keen on granting permanent rights to some web page to ping me but I might be okay with doing so until I close the tab or the browser restarts.