A year ago the Fenix 7x Pro was a top of the line watch, and now the don’t give it the new UI - Why?

The current strategy of infinite growth of corporate capital will take us back to the Stone Age. I don't know what Fenix 9 will look like but Fenix 10 will be a band of leaves.

What do you think has improved that you want on your F7? I definitely don't want to spend more time to dial in my weight when training.

forums.garmin.com/.../strenght-training---weight-adjusting

Maybe because Garmin love to work hard on multiple line of products with specific different System UI and reduce our End-User experience with a lot of bugs since months, and years for some of them.

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It will be too easy for a big company to focus their software development effort and do Software Quality.

Our devices are sharing the same SoC and most of their sub-components since 2021 ...

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Apple seems to be a good example, all watches are sharing the same operating system, because SoC is quite similar/derivated and only lock those features that are not compatible with older device (hardware limits, ram, etc.).

Usually I am all in for getting new features on last gen devices, but in the case of the new UI I am super thankful that it is not forced on us Fenix 7 users. I am certain that more users want to keep the old UI. Imagine paying a lot of money for a watch that you love and then Garmin decides to change the way the software looks completely, and you hate the new way it looks (+there are 389 new bugs). The forums would be flooded with complaints. Remember when the Garmin connect UI changed and users went completely nuts?

I will write on my behalf, although I think many people will agree with the opinion:
I don't need a new look for my F7X
needs:
- updates that don't spoil things that work, e.g.: for a few software versions the measurement of the floors climbed with stairs shows silly things - more than once there will be a prompt in the apartment that says I just climbed 10 floors ( no, I don't have a multi-level apartment)
- description and instructions for the new features introduced in the change file. Currently, garmin adds a new solution to itself, enters it in the changelog, and you search for yourself what it is and how to use it.
- since you are dividing products into those with a sun screen and those without, I want a widget that shows how much battery percentage I charged today and not some lux number that is completely useless to 99.9% of people.

- Not to introduce a revolution at the start of the season of a particular activity - as garmin did last December by spoiling the operation of skiing and snowboarding activity registration. A great time to make changes that no one asked for when the winter activity season starts.

So you really think that a change in design is a necessary thing ?

Ch4rvel said:

I just climbed 10 floors

I have this too and I am not sure if it's software or just the barometer gone bad (yes I did a few soap water sessions). But I'm killing the mountain expedition badges now.

Recently Garmin just removing things from software. Another feature Lactate threshold test been removed and confirmed by Garmin. Beta 19.21

Do not misinterpret my post, i only want stable software, i actually don't care about new UI (only if this add interesting useful change, like Maps Controls).

Actual Operating System split is not a good news in medium to long term regarding software quality.