Audio Volume Panel (from tray) never releases microphone

Uninstalling Pipewire is not an option for KDE. Only the systemd service can be turned off

Conversely, uninstalling all PulseAudio packages is required by pipewire-pulse
One of the packages included in metapackage manjaro-pipewire

pamac info manjaro-pipewire
Name                  : manjaro-pipewire
Version               : 20210109-1
Description           : Meta package for pipewire support.
URL                   : www.manjaro.org
Licences              : GPL
Repository            : community
Depends On            : pipewire pipewire-alsa pipewire-pulse pipewire-jack
                        wireplumber
Packager              : Stefano Capitani <stefano@manjaro.org>
Build Date            : 09/01/21
Signatures            : Yes
pamac info pipewire-pulse
Name                  : pipewire-pulse
Version               : 1:0.3.23-1
Description           : Low-latency audio/video router and processor -
                        PulseAudio replacement
URL                   : https://pipewire.org
Licences              : LGPL
Repository            : extra
Depends On            : pipewire-media-session libpulse
Make Dependencies     : git meson doxygen graphviz xmltoman valgrind libpulse
                        alsa-lib gst-plugins-base rtkit dbus sdl2 ncurses
                        libsndfile bluez-libs sbc libldac libopenaptx
                        libfdk-aac
Check Dependencies    : desktop-file-utils
Provides              : pulseaudio pulseaudio-bluetooth
Conflicts With        : pulseaudio pulseaudio-bluetooth
Packager              : Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
Build Date            : 04/03/21
Signatures            : Yes

You can see how installing manjaro-pipewire works out in these discussions
Failed update due to conflicting packages "pipewire-pulse" and "pulseaudio"
What is the correct way to install package “manjaro-pipewire”?