Success rate voice commands is below 50%, quite frustrating

Fairphone 6, android auto, English only.

My general experience with voice commands - google assistant - has been quite poor. Since getting into a driving commute this has been my experience over the last year. I never give any vibe requests, it is always “play x by y (“on Deezer” too if needed) or “play x (artist)” or “play the top songs by x”. Some issues:

1. Asking for any request to play any artists results in a mix that will only feature that artist for the first 2-3 songs and then never again. Especially for “play the top songs by x” or “play some x”, I expect to only hear x, ideally having the songs actually sorted by popularity.
2. Asking for specific songs to be played - usually popular ones - occasionally results in it choosing some random alt version instead of the most popular studio album version. This alt version will be a live version or a censored or reduced version. Drastically higher chance for popular artists with a lot of live material on the service.
3. This might be a google assistant issue (and we’ll see if forced Gemini makes this worse) but I’ve rarely had this happen: the text preview perfectly understand what I’m saying, and the assistant will then reword it incorrectly. With names this is probably an impossible problem to realistically solve, mentioning it anyway.
4. In that same vein of being out of your control, if have to do a lot of fuckery to my plugged in phone to make sure it’ll still react mid-drive. 
5. Not a fan of its behaviour when there is no connection where it will very much keep trying to connect. At my work the masts occasionally drop out, making me drive from my parking spot for a few minutes without any network connection and only reconnecting mid-drive. I have an offline playlist prepped but it won’t go into offline mode unless I force it to by cutting the connection on my actual phone. My connection is either good or nonexistant, You should be able to recognize the types of users that are never going to use mid-3G speeds and jump quicker to offering offline playlists.

Generally unsatisfied this lack of polish is still there in 2026.

P.S. UI request to have invisible inputs wider than the actual buttons, dead space should be intractable.