Auto-Quitting activities and Streaming

This is my first apple watch. I have been looking forward to finally owning one myself. I wanted it for accurate activity tracking (coming from Fitbit which was a disaster) and leaving the phone at home while running.

With those focal points, the product has been nothing but an unmitigated disaster for me.

Firstly: The Training App randomly quits (not just pauses!) my workouts. This happened multiple times already, but today I went on a personal record distance run. At some time during the run, while running, the app decided to STOP and QUIT my training and START a new INDOOR SPINNING training.

• This happens without any interaction with the watch whatsoever.
• While running, the watch is on a tight fit.
• I'm wearing a flimsy rain jacket which could, in theory, rotate (but never push) the digital crown.

If you are working out, I don't need to tell how utterly demoralizing and saddening it is to have your stats messed up like that.

What I need to know:

• Can the watch be configured in a way that only the user starts and quits workouts?
• Is there maybe a different app that is reliable?

Secondly (This is more of a rant instead of an actual question. I'm sorry. ): Streaming of media via mobile data is straight up busted. I don't know why I purchased the cellular version and an expensive contract update.

This is something that was easy to research on this community, as several people report the problem. I already went through the troubleshooting steps mentioned in various other threads. For most people, it magically starts working again "after three days" or so.

Even though the apps (Spotify, Podcast, Audible) are allowed to stream via cellular data, they just don't connect to anything while I'm disconnected from my phone. The only thing I can listen to are podcasts, that in the "new" section - those apparently get pre-loaded or something.

Transferring content over to the watch takes breathtakingly long. If there's a particular album, podcast or book I want to listen to, I need to start the process hours in advance.

Maybe you can tell me this:

• Does transfer of content to the watch go faster if I connect it to my PC?

I can sort of live with the later problem, even though it was and continues to be a huge waste of money. I'm mostly hoping for some insights on the functionally broken activity tracking. Thanks in advance.