Wide net for integration, but at what cost T-T – Google Home Review

The thing I love most about google home is the wide availability of products that integrate well into the home app. Basically everything I want in my house (several nest products, couple mini’s, hue lights, a wemo plug, and a chromecast) is able to be set up in the google home app, and there are hundreds if not thousands of other products out there that can be set up in the app as well and integrated into your smart home network of devices. The thing I dislike the most is how limited the app seems to be without the user friendliness that usually comes with that limitation. In the 5 years or so that I’ve been using the app, I’ve come across many seemingly obvious functions (for ex: setting up a “night time” routine that happens at a certain time) that are either not available (when setting a routine, you can’t make a time of day the trigger) or are possible but very obscured within the app; I did eventually get the “night time” routine together, but it was in “family bell,” feature setting (limited by Google in its own ways and entirely different from routines even though the only difference in theory is the type of trigger) which can only be found in the settings for your google assistant, the path to which is not super obvious or intuitive when compared to routines’ placement front and center when you open the app. All in all, I love the app and use it all the time. In my experience, there’s no better smart home app out there besides Nest’s own app from before Google ate them, but unlike in google home, you can’t add the adjacent devices like hue bulbs or smart plugs. But PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD !!! MAKE A WIDGET !!! AND !!! MERGE FAMILY BELL INTO ROUTINES !!! Thank you!
Review by olivmac310 on Google Home.