And then they binned it again the following year, just like every other good idea Google have. Which is a LOT btw, they just never have the chutspa to see it through. Take Stadia: if you have the web connection its brilliant but they allowed Microsoft to steal all their thunder by pursuing the wrong business model. They binned Inbox despite it being a 5* everybody-loves-it product. They went back to Gmail, a website whose look hasn't really changed since 2004.
The issue with iOS16 lockscreen complications is that they largely recreate the glanceable information from the widget swipe-over making that screen largely redundant.