Even some tech enthusiasts don't want the newer smartwatches.

I have a Stainless Steel Series 5 and I do love it when I use it but all the new, shiny features that come out on the Series 6, 7 and 8 (whenever it inevitably comes out) are just not worth it to me. I love the features I have but I don't use enough of them to justify wearing it versus one of my automatic watches.

I basically use my Apple Watch when I work out and that's about it. And had I realized I would start to get into non-smart watches a few years after buying the Apple Watch, I may have bought one of the lower-tier watches to use just for exercise. 

100% connection isn't great

I resisted buying a smartwatch because I expected it would take over my life. I wore an Apple Watch regularly for a year as a test. Yes, it'll always be there and it'll always be nosy. Don't use it that way.

I now use it for situations where it makes sense and no more: 1. Exercise tracking, 2. Driving when I truly need navigation instructions, 3. When I don't want to carry a big phone but need a phone -- for checking messages/mail, swiping to pay in stores, listening to music through bluetooth during exercise, etc. 

Smartwatches are new products going through the hype cycle. We'll see where they end up. 

I always look at the smartwatches but historically can't be convinced. It's hard to explain a negative, but it may have to do with the cost and the weirdness of it's always there. I'm also not convinced that it does things I can't or shouldn't do on the phone. I like the modularity of a watch, (add it to the wrist and I know thing I didn't know before) and the tech of a smart watch (all data all the time yay!). I guess I'll probably get one when it does all the things I want without question and few of the things I don't. I want a fun and/or changeable face, select notifications at select times, maybe a few other things like lasting value. But the ability to change those functional things with a 2 inch touch screen or maybe sometimes a tone-deaf AI assistant, especially when I'm distracted, is not something I expect to be super easy or fun. Waiting for you, Garmin watch 10 years from now.

I will never own one, in fact it should not even be called a watch.

Im not going to let a watch dictate my life, notify me re anything under the sun and god forbid, my workout routine... I already have a wife to nag at me for all the above.

I have one that was given to me. Maybe a gen 2. Stopped wearing it even before getting into automatic and mechanical watches. It was a thing that constantly demanded my attention, or at least constantly drew my attention. Was nice to get an accurate step count but not really necessary, so I stopped charging mine and have not really looked back. A simple quartz digital or three hander has been all I need since. I like having to choose to pull out my phone and check my notifications, feels a lot more deliberate and takes a lot less of my attention. 

Un freakin believable! hard to keep up with all that technology. Its a 2 edge sword good in some way bad in others and expensive! I can see the iPhones and Androids. And now these smart watches. Call me old school I stick with the basics Manuel,Automatic,Quartz and Digital.