I understand your position but I think it's hard to guess how many may be affected by this without fully understanding the cause. May be that not everyone is affected but maybe hte majority is? If that is the case pulseaudio is broken for headphone users.
> I do not agree it is release critical. Again I understand but you' re disagreeing with the upstream team who consider it release-critical themselves: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93259#c12
