The new studio looks NICE! You done a good job on it so far!

I am in love with Pop!OS also. I've been using it for work & play for a month or so now. I cant believe I never gave it a fair shake before. The Cosmic desktop is so frickin smooth and everything just works. I went all in on it and even hooked up all of my online accounts and email for work and play.
I keep UbuntuMATE on a second ssd around as a fall back for whatever distro I'm using always seems to go berserk. Im actually giving Pop!OS one more week. Then I'm wiping that second ssd into storage and going all in on Pop.
If it then goes berserk on me I will be pissed, lol.

As for Pipewire I used to be a hater of it. But now that I know how to create sinks & sources in the config file it's gotten a lot easier.
Helvum is cool, I use qpwgraph more. But just so you know Qjackctl and Carla both work out of the box with Pipewire too. No jackd required. Lol.

I think I'm going to end up being the guy in the Linux world that goes around saying "I use Pop!OS by the way". ROFL!