Unfortunately that is my experience as well, that the speakers have
become worse. Not in all aspects though, but as a music device, which is
the main reason for me to have so many.
As I wrote in a recent reply to Jake I have factory reset all 10 devices
I have, including the Nest hub. That did not help. At least not when I
tell the Nest hub to "turn off the music in " and it is
playing music as part of a speaker group. This is ...
The Google speaker groups are a joke. I'm so extremely frustrated at
this point. Since I bought my Google speakers I have spent probably 50+
hours to try to get them to work. For periods of time they work fine,
and exactly as I want them to. But then...
Thanks for the effort Jake, but unfortunately I think this is an all
Google issue. Before Google changed the OS of the Google Nest hub it
worked just fine. But when the OS changed this feature was ruined.