Say what you will about Google, but bugs such as these, released to the public (or their enterprise customers) this debilitating to a core product, are exceedingly rare.
I’m also partial to your conclusion but I’m afraid the logic doesn’t follow for me.
Myself and everyone I know have gone from complex routines, smart home control, and interacting with calendars… to basically using it as a voice activated radio since it can’t be trusted for much else.
Timers? Might get set, might not. Might tell you it’s set then cancel itself. Might activate in a different room. Might play an obscure punk song on Spotify with the word timer in the album name.
Spotify? Here’s a weird house remix of that popular song you requested, from an artist with 300 listens.
Calendar? I’m sorry I didn’t understand that.
Turn off the kitchen light? Ok, turning off 23 lights.
Play a classic viral youtube video? Sure, here’s a compilation of videos that doesn’t contain the one you asked for.
BY THE WAY, DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN USE GOOGLE HOME TO PLAY CHILDRENS GAMES? SURE ITS 11 PM AND YOU DONT HAVE KIDS AND YOU ASKED ME TO TURN OFF THE BEDROOM LIGHTS, BUT HERES HOW YOU CAN DO THAT.
And of course being Google there’s no such thing as a changelog, so everyone is left guessing what they’ve changed and whether there’s a passable workaround.
r/googlehome is a sight to behold when viewed as a testament to how to slowly ruin a product.
OpenAI effectively had a global outage on ChatGPT.