Tragic, the insane i/o capacity even on consumer chips is one of the most substantial advantages x86 has retained over arm or riscv, if AMD are keen to water that down I only see it accelerating the demise of modular computing.
The pipewire switch happened far more recently than a decade ago, you may be thinking of pulseaudio, which had far more valid criticisms than pipewire does now.
I would recommend gpu-screen-recorder for this role, it has much less overhead than any other option (it is a cli app, but does have a gui available if that is what you prefer)
The picture frame, modem, and cameras probably do, and the vacuum and switches could conceivably too.