Pulseaudio plus blueman does solve the bluetooth problem quite nicely. It's the main reason why I use pulseaudio.

In exchange for that I put up with confusing audio dialog boxes, high audio latency, high cpu usage when playing audio, skips and crackles when playing games, arcane commands to enable loopback, and the occasional necessary restart of the pulseaudio daemon when sound stops altogether. I guess that's a reasonable trade.