Could Stalin have been worse? Youbetcha. But that’s also quite a silly question.
A much better question is, by which date will Siri no longer suck? Or better yet, will Siri ever reach the point where she can do simple useful things like open a certain iOS setting or change the view mode in Maps? Or correctly query the web like for example DDG’s simple AI Assist (at zero cost, by the way).
The party line so far has been that Apple Intelligence is the magic wand that will make sucky Siri magically turn into something good. And yet, so far, in spite of all the effort that has no doubt gone into and all the hoopla surrounding Apple Intelligence, none of this has really done anything for Siri — childish cartoon images of yourself make not Siri useful.
So I guess I have to wonder, at which point do reasonable and patient believers become just dumb followers getting played? Is Tim Apple in it for the win (think: Steve’s when we do it it’s because we do it best) or is this all just shallow marketing fluff?