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The most important function my Alexa serves is acting as the alarm that isn't my phone/requires a separate skill set to disable. Simultaneously talking and manipulating a phone is a magnitude harder to sleep through than just the phone.

> I have never had an Alexa but surely there isn't that much time saved by having it turn off lights

You should try.

It’s a trade off: You choose when to spend more time to set up the assistant, in order to save time setting an alarm while you have your hands in the dough.

But the point of the alarm is to be able to leave and do something else. If Alexa is in the kitchen and you're in the garden it doesn't work?

I use the timer on my watch; then I can go away and completely forget about it, and be reminded in time.

It makes sense, but I never realized how much my brain resources has wasted for finding the remotes for lights and an air conditioner before I tried alexa.