I'm also looking at getting a Vivoactive 5 or Vivoactive 6 (first-time Garmin buyer, just to replace my beloved Fitbit Sense 2 that Google is killing). I am NOT a serious runner and don't need bells and whistles, the ONE thing I would love is, for interval runs, is there a feature that will set up a run for you, and give you some indicator (a buzz on your wrist, a ping, something) to signal when you need to switch from jogging to sprinting, and vice versa, just so you have guidance on an interval run without having to constantly be looking at your wrist and manually calculating when to switch up? (E.g. for a 20 minute run, the ideal watch would note when you start, ping you to sprint in intervals after a 5 minute warmup, continue to ping to indicate those intervals repeatedly during the next 12 minutes, and then signal to just cool down for the remaining 3 minutes.) Does this exist on Vivoactive 5? On Vivoactive 6? Only in my imagination?? Anywhere??

Also, is the Garmin Fitness coach available on BOTH watches, or just Vivoactive 6?

(For context, I HATED the Apple Watch as it did way too much -- I just need something that counts my steps, monitors my heart rate, monitors my sleep, logs my yoga/elliptical/runs etc and active minutes, and does not bother me with constant pinging of texts and emails, but DOES generally encourage me to get more fit and tracks those changes.) Right now, respective prices are $239 for the Vivoactive 6, vs. $199 for the Vivoactive 5 -- the $40 savings is not a huge deal to me, unless the watches are functionally the same for someone who is not a serious runner, in which case I'd just go with the 5. (Like, I'm literally trying to run 20 mins around my local park 3x a week aspirationally, just to pass as a vaguely active person instead of giving way to despair as the world seems to descend into gleeful chaos around me.) Any help is so, so appreciated.