For year+ now Google has been insisting that we give up the well functioning Google Now in favor of that abomibation of an app known as Google assistant. There is a beautiful workaround, a tiny app called Google Now Launcher, that is easy enough to configure as the default assist app. Problem is that at least once a week Android refers to the crappy Google assistant as the default. Sometimes that happens three times a day (today is one of those days). Is there a way to prevent the reverting? Is that an OOS bug or a general Android "feature"?
And if you are reading this Google, please get the message - talking to your phone all the time is plain idiotic. Sure, when I am driving it is helpful. When I am sitting in public it is plain dumb. Sure, with much hesitation you have provided Assistant with typing interface as the default, but it still wants to have a dumb "conversation" with me when I type. I don't want to have a "conversation" with a machine, just a list of search results. You are pretty good at the latter, but horrible at the former.
And if you are reading this Google, please get the message - talking to your phone all the time is plain idiotic. Sure, when I am driving it is helpful. When I am sitting in public it is plain dumb. Sure, with much hesitation you have provided Assistant with typing interface as the default, but it still wants to have a dumb "conversation" with me when I type. I don't want to have a "conversation" with a machine, just a list of search results. You are pretty good at the latter, but horrible at the former.
