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The phone delivering GPS data is done to save power when GPS is active on the bangle. It does not push GPS events all the time.
The automatic fallback just restores the default Bangle GPS behaviour when some app is using that. So if you use GPS on the Bangle you usually are aware of the power use and in case the phone can help out you save power with this feature. It does not use additional power in any previously possible usecase.
The nightly on fdroid already has these changes. Did not test a lot, but the location icon on the phone pops up if I start a GPS app on the Bangle.