Am I the only one who wants an Apple Watch without the whole health hardware?

I have an Apple Watch ultra. It's bulky but it is made to last so ok. But the health stuff I don't use. My use case is: leave my bulky brick iPhone at home but still enjoy digital life - payments, messaging, apps and music on the go. It works great - but I have to ignore the bulk that I don't use.

How come nobody makes a watch that has LTE, payments, App Store integration - not only Apple - without the health tracking - which would result in a nice slim, normal watch that does not bruise my wrist if it's too lose or my arm if it's too tight :)) you know like a normal watch experience?

Is there no market for such a thing ?

Never seen one. Says "Heart rate sensor" on the description - does that entail the tip of a sphere design on its back? Can I use contactless payments with it?

I didn't mean to make my post about Apple - but generally about a specific feature set watch:)

What I want is a cheap, slim watch that will support data storage and payments.

Strapping data to my arm is an effective part of a backup strategy that I have already solved by 3D printing an addition to the strap to hold a micro-SD card. The data is as safe as I am.

The payments part is a little harder.

Connecting to my phone is just a gee-whiz marketing gimmick with little real, practical value to me.

The health stuff doesn’t add much compared to the LTE and base hardware you need anyways. It is cheaper for Apple to just make one board with everything then to separate the health stuff, which is mostly software on top of cheap sensors.

It works like that for everyone else also. The health stuff is easy to add and conveniently usable on your wrist, so it gets put in by default.

Yes. I think the market for a watch that is just a small comms device is tiny for the big players but not tiny for a smaller one?