The keynote seems to only focus on the Pixel 9 software capabilities.

Honestly, why is this important? Aside from all the AI hype, I don't see why the event should be so focused on features that are purely software updates that will most likely propagate to other non Pixel devices.

It's just a bummer that the event focused so much on the AI features instead of the HW capabilities: probably they don't have much to show this year.

I just hope they fixed the numerous HW issues the previous Pixel devices had (e.g: overheating, radio, ...)