 Tested also todays ISO (22.12.22) and confirm this worked fine for me.. (re @lubuntu_bot: (irc) <arraybolt3[m]> Rebooted, verified PipeWire is now in use, Chrome appears stable for now. Looks like a success!)
[17:33] <arraybolt3[m]> \o/
 Nice job mate! (re @lubuntu_bot: (irc) <arraybolt3[m]> \o/)
[17:33] <arraybolt3[m]> Thanks :)
 Should pulseaudio-utils not also be removed? (re @lubuntu_bot: (irc) <arraybolt3[m]> Thanks :))
[18:04] <arraybolt3[m]> No - pipewire-pulse acts as somewhat of a Pulseaudio server and those commands should still work (I know pactl does at least).
[18:04] <arraybolt3[m]> Just tested it - paplay also works with PipeWire.
 ok fine ..looks good tested one further machine - again all good and all was removed
[18:12] <teward> arraybolt3[m]: ask SImon to kick your LXD container
[18:12] <teward> apparently I no longer have access to the system.
[18:13] <teward> tsimonq2: ^ fix the DO node so my SSH works again
[18:14] <arraybolt3[m]> teward: Thanks! Get well soon!
 "No - pipewire-pulse acts as..." <- `pactl info` should indicate which audio backend is in use. 
[22:49] <arraybolt3[m]> True. pactl is part of pulseaudio-utils.