Manjaro KDE - After the last update replaces pulseaudio with pipewire, no more audio volume controls

I suggest you reboot system

and check systemd services for pipewire and pulseaudio

systemctl --user -l --no-pager status pipewire* 

systemctl --user -l --no-pager status pulseaudio*

You may need some of these commands to disable pipewire.service and mask pipewire.socket

systemctl --user disable pipewire.socket --now
systemctl --user disable pipewire.service --now
systemctl --user mask pipewire.socket
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