In my own real world usage I estimate a comprehension rate of about 92% with voice agents.
For me it feels more like 9.2% most of the time, and that is just the voice-to-text part, not even the interpretation of the resulting text as a command.
Every couple of years a shiny new AI development emerges and people in tech go “This is it! The next computing paradigm is here! We’ll only use natural language going forward!”. But then nothing actually changes and we continue using computers the way we always have, until the debate resurfaces a few years later.
Reminds me a bit of graphical programming. Every couple of years someone comes up with the idea of replacing textual programming with some kind of graphical interface with arrows between nested boxed of various shapes and it inevitably fails.
As I said, companies still using manual processes because they haven't gotten any of their processes turned into custom or off-the-shelf software might do that but that is essentially where most of the industries were in the 90s and now most are on generation 2-3 at least of custom software for their industry or even their company specifically for processes requiring data exchange.
Many industries also created standardized formats based on XML at some point which is largely why they still use XML, e.g. ONIX in the publishing industry. Entire industries of third party handling for data for certain industries have developed since the times when sending Excel files to each other was common.
The creator of SourceHut (Drew DeVault) seems to sometimes have controversial views on various technical topics. This seems to attract a certain amount of the wrong kind of attention (e.g. DDoS attacks) though I wouldn't necessarily blame that on the creator.
It also seems to be relatively focused on email based workflows compared to other forges.
In my experience the world is run on CSV (and closely related like TSV), XML and JSON files when it comes to actual data exchange via files (as opposed to direct API usage where XML and JSON also dominate). Only the small minority of people working for companies still using ad-hoc workflows instead of custom software might send excel files instead.
Oh yeah, completely forgot to list the destruction of aesthetically pleasing views with public advertising boards and the waste of lifetime spent on watching ads in my list.
Edit: also loss of life from depression and inferiority complexes caused by unrealistic life and body image goals in advertising
As a primarily CLI user on Linux I wouldn't even think of most commands as "words per minute" unless I am composing a complex pipeline or run a command with dozens of parameters at which point typing speed is not my bottleneck limiting the speed of input anyway and a free conversational interface would be totally fucked trying to figure out what I want it to do.