[marcus0x62]

I've worn a Garmin smart watch for the last two years, exclusively for activity and sleep tracking benefits. I was an Apple Watch wearer for years (pre-ordered a Series 1 way back when.)

The apple watch, for me, was too distracting. Too many notifications, too much temptation to glance at the watch during meetings, during dinner, etc. I ended up selling the latest one I had and going back to dumb watches for a while. I felt phantom notifications on my wrist for about two weeks after I got rid of the Apple Watch.

So, when I decided to get a Garmin, I bought the dumbest smart watch they had (Instinct Solar 2) that could do activity/GPS tracking and never turned on message notifications, etc. I did enable their Garmin Pay thing and linked it to a card, because I usually run without my phone, and figured it might be handy to be able to stop by a coffee shop or something.

Anyway, smart watches are terrible.