Right - natural language works for people because we have minds that are communicating. A virtual assistant has a list of things it can do, and uses language as an interface to them. So the language just becomes obfuscation instead of allowing clarification.

I've said before, I would prefer a voice assistant that optimized for traversing its menu system, in response to unambiguous noises (could be high and low pitch hums or whatever) that lets me bypass the guessing game and use the menu it's hiding