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> Why does the device have to record and send everything to the cloud to provide this experience?

It's everything after the hotword, not everything.

You're getting downvoted, but this is literally baked into the hardware.

Except when it isn't, or another "convenient" bug makes everything a hot word, turning the device into an always-recording Internet stream.

A "bug" in your phone could do the same.