As it currently stands only the header and footer of the connect IQ window are accessible to things like the WinAppDriver or windows inspector. This sort of exposure is crucial in order to build a wearable app on a modern CI/CD pipeline.
It would be that or let us attach to and send commands to the emulator so as to programmatically do things like pressing buttons.
In addition, it would also need to let us interrogate an actively running app in the simulator by exposing app context like the current view name, if buttons are pressed or events are fired.
You can use windows inspector https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winauto/inspect-objects yourself and see that the panel is an "empty" object.