Have both the Echo and now several Google homes. The Google home is a lot easier than the Echo to get it to do stuff. The reason is the GH does not require rigid language or basically commands you have to have memorized like the echo.

So it is a lot easier to use and especially for kids and older people.

You can talk to the GH more like you would talk to your wife.

I think of the Echo as using a command line and the GH a GUI.