Apple Watch Battery Overheat

More details for clarity: My watch performed flawlessly since Dec 2018 when I received it. Several nights ago I charged it for about 3 hrs and set it on my kitchen counter fully charged for the night as I do every night. The next morning I put it on and noticed it needed to be charged! So I put it on the charger and it never charged but got very hot (114 deg F). I let it cool and tried it again with same result. Put it on a second charger to ensure it was not the problem. Watch would not charge and would not turn on no matter how I tried to reset it. Contacted Apple support and the gave me two options: 1) take it to Best Buy and let them look at it to replace battery or 2) Apple would mail a box to me to return for maintenance. I took it to BB and they said I should just send it to Apple because they are only vendors and not Apple support! Back to Apple I went however before they would send this "special box" I was required to place a credit card charge for the replacement cost ($445.85) of the watch in case the battery could not be replaced for $79. The watch appeared to be in perfect condition. Obviously they just sent the replacement watch with no explanation as to what was wrong with the watch. Follow up call to Apple support revealed zero information on that repair ticket. That is it! I will say that the turnaround time was fantastic. Mailed it on Monday afternoon and received the replacement Thursday afternoon. Thank you Fedex!

I appreciate your response and am not in disagreement. However nowhere did Apple tell me I should have my battery replaced at a particular interval. If they are selling $900+ watches (SS 44MM Space Grey) and expect me to also pay $450 when the battery destroys it I feel I should at least have had the opportunity to apply the money to a newer series watch. Just venting a little bit.

I appreciate your responses. Thank you. Incidentally I really like the watch.