I have an Amazon Echo because you can write your own skills for it. Yea, I got Google Home as a gift. I'm totally baffled by how locked up it is. You're not

I have an Amazon Echo because you can write your own skills for it. Yea, I got Google Home as a gift. I'm totally baffled by how locked up it is. You're not listening to/interacting with anything by anyone who doesn't have some type of agreement with Google.