Depending on the depth.

For shallow water (up to 10 meters) you will be fine with any model, if you go deeper, you’ll need an Ultra, as the regular one doesn’t have enough protection.

Plus - you won’t get any depth data from a regular watch as it lacks the corresponding hardware.

Are you 100% sure that happened because of the people pushback?

Personally I would ban these if I could. Yes, people are upset. No, nothing’s going to change.

If you want Apple to hear us, you need to be loud.

Apple has never cared about vox populi being proud of “we know what our customers want”.

in the Apple Store they can do it for you.

No, they cannot. Your only chance is to get a new watch and hope to still get it with WatchOS 9.

The watch can detect when you fall asleep right?

Not really. The watch knows when you’re relaxed and immobile, it doesn’t meant that you are asleep / napping. The other way is true as well - you could be tossing and turning but still asleep and benefit from in-sleep recovery.

After WatchOS 10 I’ve even created a shortcut to quickly toggle AOD and put it into Smart Stack, otherwise there’s a high chance my launch day S8 won’t last through the day with my regular workout schedule.

The idea is not really to make you stand (it’s scientifically proven that both sitting all day and standing all day is bad in a different way), the idea is to get you moving, because what is clearly bad for you is keeping the same posture for a prolonged amount of time. Other devices call the same feature “Move alert” and not a “stand alert”