I don’t know really what drove me to it outside of curiosity but I picked up the 4 last fall and I liked it almost immediately.

I use the silicon band when working out, otherwise I purchased a leather band for it.

I don’t notice the thickness or size at all, and I have the 44mm.

Rather I appreciate the size on my wrist. Thinner would be an improvement, but I don’t find anything aesthetically I pleasing about how it currently sits.

And regardless, the benefits that come with it are some that I use daily in tracking my excercise and performance progression, including my heart rate tracking and cool-down.

And like most Apple things when you’re just so completely tied into the ecosystem— it just works with my other devices.

And I relatively trust the privacy of my health data between the watch and my phone. So there’s that.

I can see how they wouldn’t be for everyone. And I still appreciate finer mechanical watches but they are much further out of my price range :)