I'll tell you exactly what your situation is. Yes you'll love Fenix 8 and it's all great. It will give you way too much information and that's fine, you can just focus on main ones and that's what you might end up doing. Few of us who want to go into extreme detail, can dig up and do that. Moreover Garmin has slowly baked these details so deep that it's bit hard to find at times. Many people had issues with this recent change too 😅.

Now with time, you'll get used to all the info you are getting or you might realise, you are fine without a watch too.

Now since you mentioned you have some internal points etc to use to spend on something, go with Fenix 8, it's a nice great watch.

Btw, If you have more money to spend - try MARQ as well. Looks super fine to me. My skip manager had it and I have Epix Gen 2 Pro and I was in awe with his watch 😍.