Apple's own documentation doesn’t know about watchOS 11’s biggest feature

From Apple's support page for connecting an Apple Watch to Wi-Fi:

Note: Apple Watch won’t connect to public networks that require logins, subscriptions, or profiles. These networks, called captive networks, can include free and pay networks in places like businesses, schools, dorms, apartments, hotels, and stores.

This has indeed been my experience ever since buying the Series 0 in 2015. But because the Apple Watch can piggyback off its parent iPhone for data over Bluetooth—and because most people are never more than a few feet from their phone—odds are you've never even noticed that attempting to join a Wi-Fi network with a captive portal would silently fail instead of bringing up a WebKit view.

Well, I've got great news! As of watchOS 11, joining a Wi-Fi network from Settings that presents a captive portal will actually work. Try it!

As a result, I can now go phone-free (the best way to go) in hotels, convention centers, and coffee shops without having to resort to Apple Watch's battery-slurping, too-weak-to-use-indoors-so-why-bother cellular radio.

Really, it works great! Somebody should tell the Apple Watch team about it.