Since it is based on Google docs and workspace its only a matter of time before google can roll out these same features rendering Hermes obsolete

That is predicated on Google [Docs] being run by someone with a shred of product common sense.

I think it's called a flow state

Yep - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)

“… is the mental state in which a person performing some activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity.”

Perseverance is the first rover with microphones on Mars. This is why we don't have audios from prior missions.

Working microphones. They've sent microphones previously, which have either failed or been on missions that crashed.

IIRC the Mars Insight mission was able to reconstruct the sounds of wind in Mars from signals picked up by their super sensitive seismometter.