PulseAudio was and is the disaster that the LAD community has already predicted. Whenever a package manager forced it onto me, I had to figure out how to get rid of it again. Hopefully PieWire will improve things.
In my experience, the Manjaro and Ubuntu package managers make the PipeWire packages "provide" the necessary PulseAudio metapackages to avoid dependency issues. I guess that means even if you don't plan to switch, installing PipeWire right now may help you prevent your package manager from installing Pulse as a dependency.