[aardvarkr]

That’s entirely on Google and it pisses me off. It goes beyond squabbles as Google has repeatedly dealt in bad faith with Sonos to the detriment of the consumer. I still remember seeing Sonos demoing both Alexa and Google active on one speaker and also remember the hissy fit Google threw and the fallout when they withdrew from the project. It took two years for Google to come back to the table and the result is the intentionally crippled implementation that you see today