I'm curious why the lemmy developers icky-ness isn't being so widely broadcasted? Only seeing this post here is what led me to know there was any drama.
Just searching the lemmy tag on mastodon for instance, no one talks about it.
However when I brought up creating a community for a special interest, someone linked this for the context of why they'd rather not https://raddle.me/f/lobby/155371/-/comment/276944
I'm in the same boat. Saw this watch a while ago, and was like "it's not the pebble time or pebble round".