We've really taken steps backwards since pebble. We used to be able to respond to messages by talking into our wrists, for ~$100. I switched to Garmin after using rebble for a bit, and that's the feature I miss most.
I'm the reverse, I never wanted to "input" to the wrist, but really appreciated the notifications, Bluetooth disconnect warnings, "the timeline" interface, and the necessarily limiting interface of 4 buttons (specifically: music control while in the shower... play/pause, next track, pick a station from a list, etc).
Totally understand how some loved the ability to compose/respond to messages, but that never made sense to me.
Garmin, Amazfit, and BangleJS comes close, but #buttons, #battery, and #b&w (well, always on, transflective, sunlight readable)
