In my experience these voice assistants are wildly popular among older and less technically literate people. I have an aunt who has around a dozen alexa-enabled speakers, tvs, and tablets around the house and constantly talks to them—weather, news, turning on the radio and music, ordering things on amazon. She doesn’t appear to be bothered by having to change her behavior to suit the assistant, including occasionally ordering the wrong item on amazon (!) and simply saying “play (genre here)” rather than album oriented listening she normally does, which disturbed me a little bit. Other older people in my life have similar behavior, and on a related point I’ve gotten at least one assistant enabled device as a gift for each birthday and christmas for the last several years (I give them away, I already have too many damn electronics).