Re:PulseAudio and Systemd Creator, Lennart Poettering, Repor...
by corrral on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @01:25PM
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There were popular audio daemons before PulseAudio took over, though. It's not like it entered a completely empty "market", if you will. Nobody was mad at the authors of those, even though in fact they did also suck. Nobody seems upset over Pipewire.
So I don't think you've found the reason.
* there is now pipewire which will hopefully overtake pulseaudio though