Yep, your losing by a 2-1 margin at best. LOLI would tell you about 1$ or so, since I already have the results before my eyes...
I'm not an expert on this but Jack has always appeared as a configuration nightmare to me.Even though ALSA is a low-level audio API it needs to properly configure and that's very much complicated as ALSA means a "Jungle" to me...
During the time I was active on the PCLinuxOS dev team we simply let the guys trying to build HTPCs and such
deal with it. Most of what I was aware scared the hell out of me. LOL
With simply a couple of clicks I can get Strawberry and Cantata serving bit perfect music and Kodi serving Atmos mkv files
over my HDMI to my AVR.
Easy-peasy, That's the way I like it.