When we first got ours years ago, I tried a bunch of apps. In a very short time, I became frustrated with the apps, and therefore adjusted my expectations of the device. Now, all I use it for is playing songs, adding items to the shopping list, printing the shopping list, asking where my orders are, playing the morning briefing, and occasionally asking it to solve a small computation.
I think that everyone on here, that is like you and me, is that way because we have trimmed down our expectations over time due to poor implementation.
1. cooking timers
2. fart noises
3. add X to my shopping list (used when shopping in a physical store)
4. Weather forecast
5. Turn off the tv
That's enough that I'm happy 'she' was built into our tv sound bar, but yeah, I don't think alexa is making any money from me.