1 - Unless you want to use Debian Sid forget Pipewire, it went through a lot of work in a short period after lauching as default in Fedora just before Bullseye launched and the latest releases will never see Bullseye.
2 - If Pavucontrol works in Testing does it work in Bullseye? 3 - This Chromebook uses an old Intel CPU based on Braswell which Intel recently rewrote the sound driver to use Intel_captpt driver. Is the soundcard using captpt or snd_hda_intel? Regards......