I was habitually doing a `killall pulseaudio` after login to get rid of this problem. About 4-6 weeks ago, again after a kernel update, the problem went away altogether. As the OP, I'm happy to say it's not a bug anymore. I'm not sure about all the others who are signed up to this bug.
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