This might be a limitation of their overall chip design. It’s meant to have a lot more power, but also to throttle more quickly. The A17 does this to a greater extent than the A16 (see RE: Village performance).
Amazon Alexa does significantly better when it comes to recognizing these basic commands and for smart home controls. Extremely quick and consistent. It’s useless for web search question though.
I wish we had universal links to specific posts! Glad you were able to find it. Link for others: lemdro.id/post/2022094 - seems to be a few updates since my last visit.