Everything is regressed to a tiny square of a screen, that you barely look at.

This is precisely why I love my smartwatch. With the watch, I get a notification, I look at my wrist and read it, 95% of the time it's nothing important and I dismiss it, and then I go about my day.

Without the watch, I'll get a notification on my phone, 95% of the time it's nothing important and I'll dismiss it, but now I have the entire fucking internet just sitting in my hand so why shouldn't I look up how tall Greg Davies is?

I find that a smartwatch helps me to mitigate distractions, rather than introducing new ones. It's honestly been one piece of tech that I could actually still recommend to people these days.