I think your appraisal is probably a fair one, but I wouldn't isolate it to iCloud, it'd be anything where a device operates with things outside of itself. My

I think your appraisal is probably a fair one, but I wouldn't isolate it to iCloud, it'd be anything where a device operates with things outside of itself. My car isn't new (2007) and lacks the built in bluetooth-ish stuff. So I have my iPhone connected to the aux via the lightning-to-headphone jack adapter. My Apple Watch is my means of adjusting music: not perfect, but I have a rule (seems to be the bare minimum) that I only track forward/back/whatever if I'm on the interstate and there are no cars near me even though the hand with the watch on it is on the steering wheel (I'm glancing, so that's a cautionary thing that even though it is brief, I could be a danger to others). Well, since the latest updates and point releases we're now at the stage where the Apple Watch has a hard time staying in sync with my iPhone. If I start a track, the watch is aware and the now playing "app" is visible. But if I pause the song and the Watch blacks out, if I activate it, I'm back at the main watch face with time and date. Before, it'd return to playing now and I could tap play button and be good to go. Instead, I need to wait until I'm at a stop and turn it back on via the iPhone (in which case, watch now shows now playing again) or hope "Hey Siri, resume music" works. This also falls into what the article talks about that it is a regression in behavior that doesn't, seemingly anyway, involve a crash. It's terrible, but it isn't going to register on any of their logs/reports because the devices seem to be functional throughout.