The watches are not useless, the only useless thing is the app and the Garmin dashboard. Before, when I had a watch only with USB/ANT client, I used to sync it

The watches are not useless, the only useless thing is the app and the Garmin dashboard. Before, when I had a watch only with USB/ANT client, I used to sync it once per week, the only thing you need to do now is to just get the .fit files and upload them on Strava or whatever platform you want or process the files yourself. I can also still sync Spotify for my music and podcasts, so that works.