What I have seen in the past is, that audio-stuff from the windows store (which windows do you use?) did interfere with the drivers, so I had to go back to original drivers... This was particularly true for Realtek. However, this worked system wide, not only PD.
I currently dont have that kind of behavior on my system with PD. Plugged earphones, bluetooth headphones, change of audio driver it all works for me. Do you have more details for us to work with?
I guess that you have notified technical support about this?
In addition, we can only add: CL needs to improve the core features of the program vs constantly adding all the rimram that nobody uses....