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Yup. I use a Garmin Fenix 6 Pro and I did not connect it to Garmin Connnect (which is basically just a frontend for all the data that i collected on Garmin’s servers).
You don’t get as much history on your watch but it still works perfectly fine. I don’t have notifications on my watch because I don’t want to so can’t attest to that. But otherwise works great.