> Everything just works properly
Not to mention the drastically lower CPU usage compared to its predecessor [1] and general lack of bugs.
> There is a lot of REALLY good software coming out
Agreed, but I would still single out PipeWire as being particularly outstanding. None of the other examples are as new, or as uncontroversial. Anecdotically, when I look at the comment section of any PipeWire article here, I see basically universal (and enthusiastic) praise.
In my case, it comes from the fact that so many sound servers have existed before, and none were even close to satisfactory, until now. It seems genuinely like a hard problem.