If Amazon wants to continue to recoup this investment from Alexa sales, Amazon needs totally different leadership on the Alexa team. Alexa's app and user experience are terrible. Adding a skill is a highly convoluted process.
Most notably and most recently, the decision to drop access from 3rd party apps to its lists is an incredibly short-sighted idea. No one wants to use Amazon's software. Make Alexa effortless to use with 3rd party software.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/31/24168681/amazon-alexa-thi...
Feel like left or right, most elected US officials are corporatists and not willing to bite (or even upset) the hand that feeds them. That said, the right is decidedly not in favor of stronger enforcement/regulation.
From a security perspective, Signal seems like the winner. I just wish they'd invest in better design/UX across the board especially their desktop app. Their app looks and feels like a boilerplate Electron app.