My wife had an Apple Watch, and hated the short battery.
Now she has a garmin epix and loves it. She always worked out, but she enjoys tracking features. We can also track each other’s progress (I also have a garmin).
You can see all the calls and text on the Garmin, and the 21 day battery life is awesome.
We just spent a week in the mountains hunting, and she likes the gps feature. She can track our hikes and it’s a safety net if she gets lost from me.
I would also recommend a touchscreen. After the apple, she got a garmin Fenix 6. She didn’t like that it didn’t have a touchscreen. Now I have that, which I really like. Got her the Epix and she loves it.