I think Siri has always been criticized, likely because it has never worked super well and it has the most eyes (or ears) on it (iPhones still have 50% market share in the US).
And now that we have ChatGPT with voice mode, Gemini Live, etc which have incredible speech recognition and reasoning comparatively, it's harder to argue that "every voice assistant is bad" still.
I wonder if Apple will roll out a paid Siri Pro tier (with LLM). Maybe that would incentivize investment into tablestake features (ie. responding reliably).
I’d argue this isn’t enough. They should explicitly ask, especially when you’re using the application to handle sensitive material such as unreleased code.