Hey Google, Why do you suck?

This is 100% a rant post. Be forewarned.

What does google staff / programmers in this department do all day? Why is the google assistant such a hot piece of trash? It's to the point where I literally LOATHE interfacing with my "google home" device in my kitchen. Half of the time this dumb machine cuts me off in the middle of asking it to set a timer because it was unable to tell who was talking to it. Well for one, you're being asked to set a timer, google, so why the hell does it even matter who is talking to you? Is it so hard to program in checks for this kind of thing? Just wait for the command to finish and then if the command requires knowledge of who gave it AND it could not resolved, only THEN complain that you were not able to resolve the speaker.

It's really not rocket science, but I guess it "Just works good enough..." is that your motto Google?

Another thing is that I don't need a four-paragraph exposition on the fact you didn't recognize my voice and how I can go about reprogramming it. Because it does this, I have to then talk OVER it to interrupt it to re-try my command again. It's downright triggering.

The next problem I have is, if ChatGPT is brand new (beta) tech, why is it able to clearly understand the context of given interaction and google assistant is like speaking Greek to a toilet? I use my Assistant, other than to set timers, mostly to add things to my "shopping list". Here is an example of an interaction that should not go the way it goes:

"Hey google, add red wine vinaigrette dressing to the shopping list"

"OK, I added those two things to the list called 'Shopping List'"

-- Checks the list on screen, sees "red wine" and "vinaigrette dressing"

-- Sees also the pulsing dots on the top left corner which indicates I'm still in the same "conversation" so at this point my expectation is that it should be at least somewhat context aware to the command I just gave it.

"He google, combine the last two items added to the shopping list into a single item"

"I don't know how to do that" or it just adds "Combine the last two items" literally to the shopping list which is dumb and unhelpful.

I cannot even say things like "Hey google, Remove the last item added to the shopping list" or any kind of "undo / removal" action (that I am aware of), so I have to then edit the list manually making the whole existence of the assistant moot.

Why is this interaction so unintuitive? I expect this was fine for version 1.0, like 8 years ago, but is Google serious with this? Can they not _improve_ this thing or make it somewhat more conversationally capable at this point? I expect way more out of this tech and if anything ChatGPT proves that what I expect is more than possible.

Just a bit ago, I tried to tell this dumb thing to remind me to "take my pill when I get home" since I didn't realize my work bag had none left and much to my chagrin was told that she is unable to do that... Since when? Location based reminders used to work and now they don't? So to be clear, they are actively removing features and making it objectively worse over time instead of better? Nice! /s

Have they ever worked to make this thing better / smarter at all since it came out? Can anyone say the assistant has ever improved since its inception? I sure as hell cannot.

Holy shit on a biscuit!

And FFS quit interrupting my movie in the other room to tell me that a "Cow goes MOO" when no one said a damn thing to you in the first place.

I thought this technology was supposed to make my life better and easier? All it does is piss me off and disappoint me!