>the hardware power button has become the tool to invoke an assistant.

I motherfucking hate this with extreme and excessive prejudice. The fucking power button ends up having nothing to do with fucking power, what level of "War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery" are we even talking about at that point?

Fortunately, my phone (a Sony Xperia) has an option to change it back to turning the fucking phone on/off, but it's still not the default and it's fucking stupid and I fucking hate it.