Is sleep tracking horrible for everyone?

Mine is good %90 of the time but yes Garmin is behind others in terms of sleep analyzing. If you introduce your sleep time to the device (what time you sleep & get up), it generally detects sleeping and awaking times accurately, just sleep stages may differ comparing to other brands (ram, deep sleep etc.) Except that Garmin is unable to detect naps that aren't in the range of sleep times that you recorded to the device, unfortunately...

Garmin hase one of the most crapy Sleep detection. I als have Huawei, Amazfit, Samsung, Xiaomi and all of them are better.
It starts after my FR235. The VA3 starts with 5 minutes deeps sleep at maxi (every night) omapred to the FR235, ho give me some hous, or a MiBand or a samung its crap like hell. The VA4/Venu continues this ***. It goes around the whole devices.

www.dcrainmaker.com/.../garmin-shows-off-new-on-device-sleep-tracking-widgets.html

But this will probably not come for the VA4.

I’ve also found that it keeps changing throughout the day. In the morning it had my first chunk of sleep only, and currently it has my second chunk of sleep only and got rid of the first!

Garmin is by faaaaar the worst when it comes to sleep tracking, which is very unfortunate considering they're pretty much the best at everything else. If they'd just fixed their sleep tracking, their trackers would be in the top 3 with all their features. As it stands right now, their sleep tracking is basically garbage.

In the 600-800€ Class you get all of that. VA4/Venu are forgotten entry class for garmin.

forums.garmin.com/.../fenix-6-series

Vivoactive and Venu are midrange devices, but with Garmins competitors, you get great sleep tracking even at entry level $90 devices. Also, the sleep tracking they are putting on the fenix 6, is already in use by Suunto, om watches that cost less than the Venu. Garmin is really messing up here.

even on a 20 dollar xiaomi  mi band you get better sleep tracking.

The sleep app is horrible, I think the algorithm is set for a 30-year-old and does not work for an older person. Too bad because that's the main reason I got it.

Yes, its useless.

Sleep tracking works quite well for me. I am 50 years old, with a fairly regular sleep pattern.