> Siri on HomePods are a disaster. You have to shout at it even for it to pickup what you are saying. Mostly when the volume is a little high.

I always speak in a normal (or slightly quieter) volume and never have an issue with Siri activating.

My biggest issue is that my HomePods need to get restarted or power cycled periodically (e.g. after a power outage or network update). I wish they were a little faster and had better self-healing but generally work pretty well as room speakers which is primarily what I got them for.