Oh that useless clock feature?🤣

As far as I can remember I had it when I updated to 17. something as you rightly said but truth be told I don't like it. I don't see it's significance. One thing about the software updates is that it's mostly for security fixes and bug fixes.

Yes, you won't see any major software changes from those weekly updates if that's what you wanted to see.

Major updates come yearly when they announce new phones and are automatically expected to put new features in them.

At the end of the day if you look at what apple is doing now you'll realize most of their new features are things which have been on the most basic of android devices for years now.