Google combining travel tools (hotel, flights)

This seems... lousy? I love the individual flight (and recently, hotel) searches, but the freeform text doesn't do what I want. I entered "SJC,OAK,SFO to PDX" thinking it would take me to flights, but instead it just googled for that string, skipping the travel search altogether.

I'm glad to see that not only is Google Trips getting some needed UI improvements, but now has a mobile-web version - giving me some trust to continue using it.

While I use Google flights now and then to compare with SkyScanner, I don't see why is this HN-worthwhile news.