The problem is more little mini watch apps are adding more functionality / touchable area, to the point it's hard on my older 41mm (I think? Maybe 40?) watch to touch some of the touch areas.
I'm guessing most devs use the giant size watches.
Even Apple themselves are guilty of ridiculously small touch targets these days. Hold the side button until the emergency screen comes up. I defy you to hit the “power off” button on a 40mm watch on the first try. Hell, I have a hard enough time on my AW Ultra with these old eyes.
agreed : it's worse when your display has a hardware failure, you remember how to try turning it off, and you screw up and trigger an emergency instead, which i've done.
Even the biggest Apple Watch screen is still tiny by any reasonable metric.
They aren't filling the extra space with "distractions", they are giving you space for an extra widget or two and making it marginally less painful to type.