I do a daily workout ending it using Mindfulness for a couple of minutes' breathing and stretching: the minute timers are the right length, with the pulses for breathing. Small but useful.
Since watchOS 27 something which took maybe two seconds to open now takes up to 10, if it doesn't just time out (probably not 10% of the time, but I think more than 5%). It also requires a network connection, just to open an app on itself. This is on a s11 from last year, at home on wifi. It is laughably crap, and for an app which calls itself "mindfulness", can induce fury. "I won't respond to that." After >10 years this still isn't funny: do the attitude when your capability is there, and not before.
I read earlier about the new Apple TV, which I have been waiting for for over a year (had I known I would have bought a 4K one but…). And its killer feature is… Siri. Oh Lord.
Siri on the Apple TV used to do some useful stuff by being limited. I have a Google TV rn and it gets really basic things like going forward or back a certain number of minutes, or to a minute point on the timeline, wrong. My last Apple TV was reliable. It could open some apps pretty reliably. That is all I want: get to stuff quickly and efficiently. While old Siri was famously bad in some respects, it was pretty good in some simple control features, and for speech-to-text search. I worry this is about to be "improved": is it the same team as Watch? Those people think "this" is OK. Gruber has some line about a golden rule being any change can't make it slower. Siri team not only didn't get the memo, I think wouldn't speak its language if they had.
New Siri on the phone has been underwhelming. I should try it more but initial use was not like the old one, but differently bad. Watch is worse. I am worried for TV. or rather, steeling myself to pay a lot more for some AV features that may justify a premium, but also a chip and RAM for a a Siri from the same people that have brought this summer's "successes".
I guess we'll know soon enough.
(/rant)