Google's Project Starline is much closer to a technology that actually enhances our lives, as opposed to trying to twist it into something else. Technology when done right is intuitive and mimics our natural environment, in which we are evolved to thrive.
https://blog.google/technology/research/project-starline/
As for having text-based interfaces, they are completely natural, we have been conversing for at least a 100,000 years. Erika Hall has a great video about text-based design. Safe to say that it's not going away.