Ask HN: After ChatGPT, why are voice assistants still so horrible?

I just spent 15 frustrating minutes talking to Google Assistant asking simple questions that can easily be found on, mild shock, Google, and all I got was "sorry, I didn't understand".

Same with Siri or even Alexa.

Google Assistant was launched in 2016. ChatGPT is much younger and is already running circles around them with the plugins.

Which evil force is making them so bad?