These are supposed to be voice assistants and we don't communicate that way.

If you were riding with someone, you could say "hey, let's stop at X on the way?"

Voice assistants today require you to conform to an unknown strict protocol that only works if you say the right words in the right order. I prefer to avoid the frustration.

Just today I asked it about a historical figure "hey Google, who was X?" and it replied. I was shocked and felt lucky so I asked "What is ChatGPT?" and it gave me the usual response "sorry, I didn't understand". Seriously, you didn't understand? It could have said something like I couldn't find it in my search results (odd but okay), or that it can't look it up online, etc.

I have to say "asian restaurant" and it finds a bunch of places (many aren't asian at all). But if I say "hey Google, what are the Asian restaurants near neighborhood X with 4 stars or more?" it craps its pants hard.... even though Google Search is totally capable of answering that question.

Sometimes google assistant will answer a query I thought for sure it would fail on with a really good answer and other times it will fail the most basic of commands. It's frustrating.