This is HN. So you're likely to get a bunch of "no"s.

I'm not sure if you should embrace them outright, but I think it's useful to recognize there are some situations where they are more benefits than disbenefits.

I care about privacy, but for me, I'm willing to accept a certain tradeoff between privacy and utility. Voice assistants are genuinely useful for hands-free operations.

When I'm driving, I ask Siri to play specific playlists or podcasts, to turn the volume up, weather, navigate to this or that place. I take the issue of distracted driving very seriously so I try to never touch my phone while my vehicle is in motion. Siri is helpful in these situations.

At home, I only ask Alexa a couple of things: "weather", "set timer for 5 minutes" (for when I'm cooking and my hands are wet), "connect bluetooth", "play brown noise". I rarely deviate from these requests. But YMMV.