[max47]

>Initially, when they were new, also Siri, Alexa and Google Home felt mindblowing and "truly like the future".

Strong disagree on that one. It was difficult to get them to do simple things like give the weather if a different location, play the right song. Even asking what time it is wasn't guaranteed to give you an answer if you didn't ask the right way. The marketting material made it sound great but the first hand experience was very underwhelming. The biggest use case at launch was making it say funny things.

[VelesDude]

At first yes, but about a year or two in was when you could do some really cool things, especially with Google. It could be astoundingly context aware, especially regarding a chain of on going queries. I have not seen that happen reliably in at least 5 years.