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No.

And then do you want to try the new guide?

No.

And it's full of so many promos and upsells before you even get to the UI to actually create a workout.

And then when you get to that UI, it's like, has anybody ever used this inside the company before?

How to God did this ship like I am so blown away by how utterly hostile and terrible this app is.

It takes the Alan Dye era of UI crappiness to a new level that I didn't even know was possible.

So great job.

ghost of Alan Dye inside of Apple.

I'm shocked at how bad this is to the point that now I am seriously looking around at alternatives to the Apple Watch because this is one of the most common things I do with it.

It is so, so bad that it makes me question the entire platform and it makes me resent the entire platform and want to just drop it.

And to be clear.

that wasn't great before like over the last few os's it has gotten more and more like crapped up but it was at least still like you know you could still like do it it was just less ideal than it used to be but it was still like an 18 it was still usable

Which is how it used to... Oh, and by the way, I just opened up the workout app on my watch to review this interface so I could comment more intelligently on it.

And I was interrupted on launch.

Welcome to workout.

New navigation.

I launched this app this morning.

And it's given me the first run welcome screen a second time now.

This is so bad.