I have a PineTime running through Gadgetbridge, and a Pebble Time Steel with Rebble services. You can pair the Pebble with Gadgetbridge and run it that way, and I imagine these new Core watches would operate similarly… But we will find out as time goes on.

I’m with you on this. If it could come with a privacy-respecting smartphone app hosted on F-Droid, that would be so great.