While PipeWire was there before as a video transport service to enable screen sharing on Wayland, the addition of the audio layer by default exposed all of PipeWire's incredible capabilities to a broader audience. That has enabled faster audio paths for resource-intensive applications like video games as well as applications on embedded devices, avoiding the need for audio conversions that typically happen in a standard PipeWire audio setup. Finally, after some intense bug fixing in October, WirePlumber was made the default PipeWire session manager in Fedora 35.