Seriously, people in the comments seem to have drunk so much google coolaid it isn't even funny. It's an obvious bug that doesn't let your "digital assistant" setup something that you personally would be able to setup.
There isn't a rationale here, there isn't some hidden tech, it's just shitty design.
It was not my aim to defend Google on my first remark, only to gently mock what seems a triviality. I found this post among gloomy world news, out of its proper context. Such a contrast can make anything seem absurd.
It's significantly faster to just tell it to set an alarm than it is to go into the app and do so manually, wanting it to work with all of the features isn't asking a lot
The whole problem is that you can't set an alarm more than 24 hours ahead of time unless you set it to repeat. The timer also gets reset if the phone restarts or if you bump the stop button on the notification screen. Workarounds work most of the time but they set you up for problems. The artificial limitation is unnecessary and just creates problems for people like myself who have ADD.
I said so elsewhere to one other, but I will reiterate that the jest came from viewing the remark outside of its proper context. I apologize for trivializing the matter.