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mattinoz said:

Yes if he took his landline phone out swimming with it could have saved him. 

My point is that the watch was a communication device, similar to a landline phone, why give the credit to the watch, if the watch sprung out propeller blades and dragged him back to shore, I would then say the watch saved his life.  The watch didn't even detect he was in distress, and automatically send a distress signal, he manually had to do it.  If he had his iPhone on him, and he then placed a philosophers call, would Apple give credit to the phone?

the people in the helicopter saved him, not the watch.  Back in the days when people used landlines to call the emergency services, we didn't give the credit to the home-phone, we gave it to the respondents.

The 16E is a downgraded model of the 16, so it should be compared with that, not with the SE3 which is from their budget range which is 3 yrs old and awaits its successor.  Your comparison attempts to make the 16E look good by comparing to a phone made 3 years ago.

A good idea would have been to put a case from the current SE next to them

This touch rejection feature sounds like the best idea ever, something I've wanted on touchscreen phones for over a decade, the trouble is implementing it, as it's all guesswork for the phone, maybe some extra sensors which don't yet exist will need to be added along with some neural implants, so the phone knows whether the touch was in fact a touch and that you weren't just handling the phone while the screen was on.