I disabled almost all notifications, and now I like it because it means that if I just got a text message (basically the only notification I allow), it shows me

I disabled almost all notifications, and now I like it because it means that if I just got a text message (basically the only notification I allow), it shows me who sent it and not the message itself (where otherwise I’d have to pull out my phone to see who texted and in the process I’d see the message). That makes it easier for me to notice the occasional semi-urgent family ping while otherwise ignoring notifications. Admittedly, it took some tuning to get notifications on the watch to NOT be a distraction. I suspect that, for most people, having all notifications off by default would be better. But I also have a feeling that many people don’t ever figure out how to adjust the notifications, so if the watch shipped with “mute” as the default many people would never even realize it was capable of receiving notifications in the first place.