It seems ironic then that specific thing failed spectacularly for me today. Siri put the text "set a timer for 15 minutes" into the text field of a reminder. I have no clue why, and no timer was set.
But you know what? Still better than Alexa for managing my smart home stuff. By miles and miles, IMO.
And god help you if you give up halfway through a command with a prompt. “Cancel”, “stop” and “nevermind” don’t work for half of that for some reason, so you have to walk up and tap the HomePod to cancel.
"Hey Siri, whats the weather?" and "Hey Siri, what the X-day forecast". Everything else is a huge mess.