If you don’t think you’ll ever need to track to track cycling with the watch, then the Fenix series is definitely overkill. Only the higher end models connect to power meters (Forerunner 7**,Forerunner 9**, Fenix) which is why I assume a lot of the Garmin folks end up with those models.
The question I’d ask are:
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Do you have an iPhone or an Android phone?
There is a lot more “smart” integration on the Android side, Apple locks Garmin out of some of the stuff -
Do you care about the smart features or do you just want to track body battery and daily activity.
You could go as cheap as a Forerunner 55 or 245, Vivomove, or Vivosmart to get those features. I actually kinda like the Vivomove if you want something that just looks like a normal watch. If you’d want GPS without your phone, then you’d need a Forerunner or step up to the Venu.
I wish Garmin would come out with something like the Amazon Halo, or Whoop strap, as I’d love to have something super simple to track that stuff within the Garmin ecosystem.