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PulseAudio has been a boon for me too. I found messing around with sound a complete pain for my simple needs which included occasionally plugging in/out a USB headset for VOIP. Works perfectly on 4 disparate desktops thanks to PulseAudio.

I suspect that the people raging about this are those that have a high level of expertise in audio configuration pre-PulseAudio and are understandably miffed that their investment is somewhat wasted now.