Jim Carter wrote
The ELT has improved on all of these times and flight watch is more
popular now to the point that the alerting practice can get quite
protracted. The sense of urgency isn't there unless accompanied by a
failure to report to flight watch or an ELT signal -- which had to be
done to live with the staffing reductions promised by the new ELT
technology...

As Bob Gardner previously pointed out in another thread, or perhaps over
on RAP, Flight Watch has no function other than the collection and
dissimination of aviation weather. Although generally co-located with a
Flight Service Station, they are not one and the same. Pilots should not
be using Flight Watch as a substitute for a FSS.

Bob Moore