The only things these "smart" speakers are good for is timers, adding to lists (especially grocery lists in the kitchen), and playing music. And even then they often stutter...

The regular Amazon Echo Dots are fine, but I have one Echo Show that I thought would be useful in the kitchen. The damn thing must be mining Monero because it's almost unable to do anything else most of the time.

Agree, but they are very good at playing music. They are still useful even if the don't do anything else, just like a microwave just needs to cook food.

They can't do any of those three things anymore