So true. I have about the same ! tvos 14.2 with several airplay 2 speakers in the mix; HomePods, HomePods mini, bang Olufsen never was and still not it’s possible to have the b&o as a default output. but daily usage of the b&o used to be, just swipe down, once or twice to the right and select the speaker and off you go. That audio part is gone now from the top pulled down menu simple, quick, and one can keep watching the image on the screen; now - and this has seriously lowered the Wife acceptance factor at our little apple tv- HomeKit home - one has to keep pressing the little tv icon for some seconds, the menu takes over the screen, select speaker, press back some times (but not too much as you wil exit the running airplay program or show) (also - yes a while ago - the remote.app was way quicker in use than the control centre version. Tapping an app is just quicker than swiping the control centre and tapping the remote icon, 2x the hassle! when we are still having this trip down memory lane: the change of behaviour of the green traffic light in a window to “full screen” instead of “zoom to defined size” are really big losses I think) unfortunately its not possible to downgrade my atv4hd to 14.2 because no USB port .. soo sad