Digital assistants are the height of sloth. Older technological inventions were truly transformative. Prior to the intention of the washing machine people waste

Digital assistants are the height of sloth. Older technological inventions were truly transformative. Prior to the intention of the washing machine people wasted hours a week doing moderately hard physical labor. The washing machine of course still requires that somebody be present to change the loads, but otherwise people are free to do more or less anything else while the load is running. This was truly transformative. What does a digital assistant get you? It possibly saves you a few seconds, or allows you to set a task while walking or driving rather than forcing you to remember the task all by yourself and then later use the phone with your hands when the time is available. This does not save you time, instead it only saves you impulse control. ie, the task takes the same amount of time, but now feels like it requires no declarative action on the part of the user. It's not even clear that voice commands are better than using a GUI. If I'm unfamiliar with a GUI, I can look visibly for cues which point to the function I'd like to use. Voice commands require me to memorize the commands and syntax which might be used. It's more of a "simplified command line" than it is a GUI. And then of course, n% of the time, a perfectly-formatted voice command fails for invisible reasons. And so n% of the time it does not save you time.