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I've also used pulseaudio for this sort of things in the past, it's very flexible and works rather well!
When it works (!), it's one of the reasons I brag to my tech friends about Linux, and why I switched to Linux many many years ago. In fact, it was when Esound was a thing. But once in a while it stops working after an upgrade or a dist-upgrade, and I have to spend time trying to fix it.
I like to joke around with tech minded friends that Windows keeps breaking with every updates, but then I have to spend an hour finding out why my sinks disappeared after an upgrade, and I'm forced to realize that... sigh... these things happen with Linux too.
You could maybe look into using SnapCast, it would be independent from pulse and should work even through apt updates ;)
I haven't been using pluseaudio for an eternity, since the Linux machines I use are mostly headless,.yet I was a pluseaudio fanboy when it was.just replacing ALSA. Yet, the hours and hours pulseaudio cost me to fix some upmix that had stopped working or some other weird shit... IDK if I'd still preach it's upsides would I be in the same situation now.
I tend to like it. I use it even on some headless machines (for example for streaming audio). I'm gonna have to learn more about using Pipewire sadly.