Reminder that the Garmin Venu was released in September 2019 at a price of 350 USD. Reminder that the forerunner 245 got the on-device sleep widget even though it was marketed as a running device, and the Venu was marketed as a health and lifestyle device, and also that the forerunner 245 was released at 300 USD. Reminder that the Vivomove Style was also released in September 2019 at 300 USD. Reminder that shortly after the forerunner 245 got their sleep widget, the Venu 2 released, shutting down any discussion of bringing the sleep widget to the original Venu, because if you wanted that feature, you might as well go buy a new device. I have no qualms with the fenix series of the same product generation also getting the sleep widget, given that they cost 2 to 3 times as much, and are supposed to be the flagship models. What really is funny is when cheaper devices like the FR245 (not even marketed towards health and wellness) got the sleep widget and the Venu did not. Of course, Garmin needed new features to put in the Venu 2 , and if they added native sleep widget to the original venu, it would have cannibalized sales...
Now, the Vivomove Trend has been released in February 2023. We also see that in the Vivomove Style/Luxe forums, they got an update that brought native sleep tracking to it, 3.5 years after their release. I bet Garmin would have loved to not give them the feature, but they weren't planning to make Vivomove Luxe 2 yet, and the Style/Luxe firmware is too intertwined.
Also keep in mind the Vivomove Sport was released in January 2022 for a price of 180 USD, and came with the sleep widget. Keep note, any forum perusers, this is Garmin's business model: sell more hardware.
Now I have a Fenix 6 series, but I used to have a Venu and got sucked into feature creep. Once fruit-brand can prove their worthiness in the battery life department, it's game over. Because i know fruit-brand actually gives feature updates to their devices even half a decade later, like they have for my phone which they supported with FEATURE updates (Not just security updates) for over 6 years. This is the case with fruit brand watches as well.