Not to flex but... I have more twitter followers than Austin Pocus also since when has pulseaudio/pavucontrol been hard for a basic to mid-advanced user who is not a audio engineer. I mean heck, I first installed pavucontrol back in 2012 on my foray back to linux on lm13 and it was dead easy then.

If a complete dunce like me could do it back in 2012, it would be a cinch for someone who has "used linux for 15 years". Also my first ganoo lunix was Red Hat Linux 8.0 back in late 2002. I've decided that I dislike Austin Pocus from now on