I would strongly advise against deliberately not keeping system apps, such as the Wear OS app, up-to-date. These apps can contain important security fixes and other critical updates. Whether you allow the apps to auto-update, or you do the updates yourself manually, isn’t the point. Rather, the point is that these system apps need to be kept current.
Intentionally uninstalling an update to Wear OS is risky and is not a valid or acceptable solution to this bug.
I just download the new update on Dec 11th 2024 for the Galaxy watch Ultra. Adaptive brightness for AOD is still broken. I am using the latest WFS build. Come on Samsung fix this issue. It is annoying and renders the AOD display virtually useless in bright sunlight.
It could be this Wear OS issue. Even though the title of that is ‘Pixel Watch’, it wouldn’t surprise me if the issue is in Wear OS or the software component that runs the watchface created by WFS. Google seems to be in no hurry to look at it (maybe because it’s too dark to see).
I don’t believe it’s related to anything from Google’s side, for the simple reason that this bug originally existed on the Galaxy Watch6 running Wear OS 5, and it was fixed on that device/OS via a firmware update from Samsung, as confirmed in earlier posts in this thread here (and also fixed on my own Watch6 at the time).
The bug returned with the Watch7 running Wear OS 6 when it was released half a year ago.
The Google bug you’ve linked to was created in December 2022 and still has not been fixed as of today, which suggests it’s an unrelated bug unique to the Pixel Watch.