No. I and 98% of the world just want to make calls, not start a project. There's...

lozaning · on Jan 4, 2020

Turns out that such functionality is actually supported natively by the watch. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203032 as long as as you have any of these carriers: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204039

Though to your point it did take me a bit of ducking to figure this out. Seems extremely straightforward once you know it exists.