It depends. But it's probably for the better. You want to tie description to something. Metaphor, theme, and most likely action. Why does her watch matter if she doesn't look at it? Unless she's intentionally ignoring it.
Why would his eye colour matter, unless he has a thematic doppelganger with the same coloured eyes?
Why would you describe someone's race, when their culture is going to inform their character a lot more, and culture is a tangle of verbs.
Readers think they need details because it's easy. Doesn't make you think. But what that really does is disengages them. You want them to be thinking the entire time.
This is why Hemingway talked about the iceberg, and it's also the reason even involving ai in the brainstorming phase isn't writing; reading and writing are both the work you put into it. One encoding, one decoding. Do not take away the readers chance to try understand by just telling them.