Not sure why you’d want that, though.
The vast majority of users will buy a smartwatch expecting it to be smart, so giving them instructions for how to enable those features seems logical to me.
>lock you in
Wait, how?
>demographic information
...which is optional?
after the initial update
Wait, how?
optional?
Unboxing it, you find there are strings attached, puppeting your actions.
Actually it's merely practical; the OS ships with a known save OS that's capable of booting up and connecting to Bluetooth to get an update. It's also the OS that it reverts to if it gets stuck in a boot loop.
It's a perfectly reasonable engineering choice.
But hey, choices are choices. Feel free to make as many bad decisions as you like. How many replies have I put forward? How many obstinate retorts are there? Read them all and listen or don’t.