As others have commented, the documentation is not there yet. I've never had good experiences trying to switch from pulse to pipe.

It sounds like some distros are using as the starting point for new installs, like Arch.

Is this the best way, to just install a new distro from scratch. I just don't want to try to hack a bunch of configuration files from pulse.

If so, what's the best distro offering pipewire. It seems like a revolutionary change and I'm excited to use it.