Some of the SDL_AudioDevice struct members aren't initialized until after returning from the OpenDevice function. Since Pipewire uses it's own processing threads, the callbacks can be entered before all members of SDL_AudioDevice are initialized, such as work_buffer, callbackspec and the processing stream, which creates a race condition. Don't use these members when in the paused state to avoid potentially using uninitialized values and memory.
The latency of source nodes can change depending on the overall latency of the processing graph. Incoming audio must therefore always be buffered to ensure uninterrupted delivery.
The SDL_AudioStream path was removed in the input callback as the only thing it was used for was buffering audio outside of Pipewire's min/max period sizes, and that case is now handled by the omnipresent buffer.