Some might wonder if he’s been effectively working for Microsoft all along. I don’t think that’s really fair. Both PulseAudio & Systemd are trying to do something really useful and make things better than they were before … but man some of the architecture & design choices along the way are regrettable.
Pulseaudio was a program which, for some years, only worked, if you killed it.
Start firefox, try to play a youtube video, does not play audio, kill pulseaudio, sound works.