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Alexander and Elliot,
A decision like including Pulse Audio, made with full understanding that it would break some apps, will necessarily annoy some users. This was a predictable cost of that decision, and some few posts like Patrick's are the evidence of that cost. Having such evidence be visible to the developers is extremely valuable to the Ubuntu project because it reminds everyone that such costs are real and hopefully prevents such costs from being underestimated on future such decisions.
That's not to say that the cost was underestimated for Pulse Audio or that the decision to include it in Hardy was incorrect, but annoyed and confused users ranting in bug reports *will happen* when the developers decide to implement major changes that break applications. This is a good thing - especially in cases like this where the developers have fixed the problem partially but not completely.