I get that Samsung were aggressive in reducing numbers of designers, they needed to be as there was an abundance of trash. Sadly, there still is, yet some serious designers are still denied. For what it’s worth, some of the watch face designs I submitted in my application which was denied had close to 100,000 downloads on their own, and other new ones were part of a project for my Masters (Art+Design) for which I received a distinction!!! How this could have been rejected for lack of quality is beyond me.
But, saying all that, the problems with GWD/GWS and the overall Samsung store experience, it’s not a big loss to me frankly. I’ll save the money I would have spent on buying upgraded smart watches over the next 10 years and buy myself a real quality watch which will last generations and can be handed down.