Pixel Watch 3 counts steps whenever it feels like it

Coming from multiple Samsung Galaxy watches (4, 5, Ultra), the step counting on the Pixel watch is pretty atrocious. Here is a video driving in a car just moving an arm and the watch counting steps based on GPS.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ur5_m8KyOIs

Samsung Health has a better algorithm that matches watch and phone data to minimize erroneous counting like this, and I thought Google had said they had "fixed" this earlier this year or last year, but just FYI it's still borked.

I am absolutely still in the Pixel camp - I think the P10P is a better experience than Galaxy S25 Ultra and Z Fold 7, and the Pixel watch is better at organizing and handling notifications, but man I wish the step counting wasn't so bad.

It's not a total apples to apples comparison but when I'm dual carrying a Samsung phone, the step step count in Samsung Health at the end of the day might be 5,000 and in Fitbit, it'll be 7,000.