[jwise0]

I was kind of surprised too. I have some conjectures about the internal politics from the output that I observed (super friendly, super helpful support team; development team knew it was an issue, and had orders from above?).

And yes, the ELEMNT is an ok cycling computer, but I think with a few bug fixes, it would work 'at least tolerably' for hiking (that is to say, at least as well as the Garmin Edge 510 did). The Edge 510 was not a great hiking computer, but for 'datalogging with a separate battery from my phone, and capable of speaking ANT+ to my heart rate monitor', it at least captured correct data...

[ebikelaw]

I'm surprised you thought this thing had more bugs than Garmin. My Garmin randomly inserts week-long periods of time into my bike rides, and I'm not the only one: there is an entire site dedicated to un-ruining your Garmin .fit files at https://www.fitfiletools.com/ . The way a Garmin suspends and resumes your ride takes more time as your ride gets longer. At the last rest stop on a 200-mile ride my Garmin spent about 2 minutes just resuming. And you mention that the wahoo gives cues after turns, but my Garmin does that and worse. Garmin gives cues on mountain roads where there's no choice, and fails to give them at the intersection of two roads where you do need to make a choice!