Agreed, I don’t have a problem with it as it has been announced in that I have no desire for AI stuff and as long as it doesn’t affect my current experience people can knock themselves out with paying for that stuff. Sadly however I don’t believe for a minute it won’t creep into the basic experience like it did for strava for instance and slowly start eroding my experience unless I start paying a subscription. That I think is unacceptable but also seems par for the course these days and it is disgusting.

What you’ve described doesn’t sound too bad as long as you have buttons too. My hatred came from having one of their watches in the past where everything was controlled with the touchscreen and it was an absolute nightmare, particularly trying to end an activity after a long run when it is cold or raining or whatever and it just not responding was the most frustrating bullshit. I am a fan of buttons in general though and miss my physical keyboard on my phone etc.