The other thing I find strange in the direction linux is going is a movement away from a network model by eliminating the client-server model. Wayland is just one example. Pipewire is also not network transparent and has to piggyback on pulse. Plus, just try configuring either from a simple conf file. I may be paranoid, but it looks to me like a frog in a pot of boiling water that ends with the major desktop linux builds locking users into their devices with little ability to change them except where they allow it via gui in the name of security and convenience.