Disappointed with my Fenix 8

Thanks, I'll look into this. On item 4, I actually turned off phone notifications on my watch but I'm still receiving them whenever I sync my watch to my phone. I'm not sure if others are experiencing this. 

My battery is great, 2 weeks no problem on my F8. the crashes started recently. every time i plug in it seems to want to update maps, but if i manually update from PC it looks fine.. sometimes i wake up to a black screen and watch is no longer working, Battery is fine. 

Check your sleep mode and turn your device off and back on.

It happens sometimes during the day too. I had a treadmill run. Finished. Checked my stats. Then about 20 minutes after I looked and it was off again.  So no specific to sleeping or sleep mode. Just 1 of many times 

With the number of issues you list, call garmin support and they can walk you through each.

While the Fenix 8 isn't as much of a dumpster fire as it was on release, still many issues/annoyances. Here are mine:

1. Immediate crash and reboot when trying to load a course with navigation.  Same issue if I try and redo a previous activity.  Case open with garmin support on this.

2. Activities have been consolidated and actually requires more clicks to get to what you want. (compared to previous watches').

3. Fonts on the watch faces are way to small to see. Can't adjust them.

4. I created a shortcut to change Text Size. When I click on it, the watch crashes and reboots. Case open with garmin support on this.

5. The display dims so much in low light, it's impossible to see anything on the watch face.

6. GPS acquisition takes much longer than Epix. Not like an hour or anything, maybe 15 seconds compared to instant on my Epix. When you're standing there at 5AM in 18 degree weather, it reminds you how the F8 isn't as amazing as a cheaper watch.

Not broken per se, but I'm not a fan of:

1. The buttons no longer have that satisfying click with mechanical buttons. The case is sealed and they had to change the buttons and they are more 'squishy' and often I have to click multiple times to select what I need.

2. The titanium edition is now just the bezel, no longer the bezel AND back case like the previous Fenix 7/Epix 2. We are paying more for less. That sucks garmin.

3. The box it comes in is smaller than the previous. For such an expensive watch, I'd expect a bit more presentation and for them to not cheap out.

I have the 47mm AMOLED sapphire watch on the latest firmware. I got a $210 discount from my health insurance. I have the Epix 2 non-pro and don't dive and don't really use the F8 speaker/mic or voice commands. So what am I really getting that I don't have on my Epix 2? The new UI that I love and the flashlight and the new heart rate sensor, which is noticeably more accurate. And I admit it's insane with all these issues and for what I'm getting for the price, I'm out of my mind for buying it. But I kind of justified it by selling my Epix 2 later on for about $300. But even then, the purchase doesn't make sense. But I just wanted it..

For an expensive Fenix 8 that cost me $1300, I expect accurate distance tracking. It consistently over estimates the distance traveled. It's no better than the my cheaper Fitbit Versa 2 or Garmin Forerunner 55. I really don't care for all sophisticated issues being fixed with numerous upgrades. Just start fixing the basic stuff, Garmin, ACCURATE DISTANCE TRACKING!

Sent my battery logs to Garmin. They replied me yesterday stating:

"Based on the battery logs we've received and reviewed we can see your watch is getting a projected battery life of about 11-16 days which, based on your watch usage and watch settings, is within our expectations. In your charge cycles you are performing around 5-7.5 hours of GPS activity (20-41 minutes per day).

With this in mind having reviewed the sets of logs you sent in we have not found any cause for concern and the device does look to be working as we would expect."

During the battery logging, my watch lasted slightly less than 10 days with 8% left. I did slightly less than 7.5hrs of GPS activities using auto-select mode for GPS settings.

I tracked my battery % on paper and noted that my watch lost ~10% or more battery in less than a single day on 2 occasions and this is without any activities. For example, from 21 March 0125hrs to 23 March 0135hrs, my watch battery dropped from 47% to 14%. This is with 1x 60 min run (4% drain) and 1x 90 min run (4% drain). So 25% drain in two days outside activities.