In case you wonder why there are still pulse-audio packages installed; when pipewire is installed it uses some of the old pulse-audio packages, so there is nothing wrong with that.
What often seems to go wrong is that some of the pipewire default settings seem not to fit all hardware. The actual audio/video symptoms vary, I had issues with stuck audio players when pausing mid-track.
What helped a few people is to go through this tutorial resetting pipewire defaults to more suitable and stable values. Takes less than 10 min and it solved my issue: