No, he's saying he was having to use it too often for things that were unnecessary to pick up the iPhone to see were unnecessary to look at right then. The Apple Watch makes it easy to see and dismiss the need to pick up the iPhone. You can also decide what alerts and notifications you don't want to send to the Apple Watch that you might like to normally receive on the iPhone. When you are wearing the Apple Watch and it is active, the iPhone will not necessarily display or beep for those either.
You choose to read too much negativity into what he wrote. . . which was to describe the exact reason that Apple designed the Apple Watch: to relieve the user from having to depend too much on the iPhone for alerts and notifications that require having to pull the iPhone out of a pocket or purse to see what they are all about.
I think I got it right. A person shouldn’t need an expensive watch to make their phone work the way they want.