Wake Up alarms aren't audible on Apple Watch

The way Apple Watch handles alerts for Wake Up alarms is frustrating, confusing, and out of sync with Apple's own goals for encouraging healthy sleep habits. If you use Sleep Schedules and Wake Up alarms as Apple has designed, but you also use Silent mode on your Watch, you will not get an audible alarm at all, on your phone OR or your watch, and you will likely sleep through your Wake Up alarm unless you are the rare person who can be woken up with haptic vibrations.

Apple can fix this issue by either letting Watch alarms behave like iPhone alarms, that is, by allowing them to be audible even when the Watch is on Silent mode. Or they can allow audible Wake Up alarms to play on the iPhone while the Watch concurrently gives a haptic-only alert while its on Silent mode.

I've been scouring the support forums and have found many people frustrated with a confluence of various features that produce this issue. Responses from support representatives do not seem to fully grasp the full scope of the problem, who suggest workarounds that do not fully account for these facts:

1. To use a Wake Up alarm, you need to use a Sleep Schedule on your iPhone and/or Watch. This isn't a problem on its own for many people. Many people are fine with using Sleep Schedules and prefer the alarm chimes that Wake Up alarms provide.
2. If you are using your Watch to track your sleep with the Watch technology designed by Apple expressly for this purpose, you are necessarily wearing your watch to bed. Many people, myself included, like to do this.
3. If your Watch is on Silent mode, alarms on the Watch are not audible. This is where issues begin to arise for people, because this behavior is inconsistent with how the iPhone works. On iPhone, alarms are audible regardless of whether Silent mode is on or not. I prefer keep my devices on Silent at all times and would posit many others do as well. I personally don't see the point of audible alerts on the Watch at all, since the haptic vibrations are sufficient for alerting me of things when I'm awake. However, I do need an audible alarm at night to actually be woken up, whether it's on my iPhone or on my Watch.
4. If you are doing the combination of (1), (2), and (3), you have a Sleep Schedule with a Wake Up alarm, you're wearing your watch to bed, and your watch is on Silent. In this arguably very common scenario, your Wake Up alarm will be completely silent. It will only vibrate on your Watch and there be no audible alarm from either your iPhone or your Watch. This is where people get frustrated and write to this forum asking why their Watch only vibrates for their Wake Up alarms instead of producing an audible alert. Some people even report being late to work because of this issue.
5. One might expect that disabling Sleep on the Watch might fix the issue I laid out in (4). I certainly expected this, because by doing I was essentially severing the Watch's connection with the Sleep Schedule and its associated Wake Up alarms. This does not fix the issue, bafflingly, because as long as the the iPhone and Watch are connected and the Watch is on Silent, the iPhone will "push" the Wake Up alarm to the Watch and produce a silent, haptic-only alert.
6. One workaround suggested in these forums is that people not use Silent mode on their Watches while sleeping. I would posit that during sleep is most important time for having a watch on Silent mode! If Apple would simply allow alarms to chime on the watch during Silent mode (or allow a configuration to turn this on or off), this would be an acceptable solution to the issue.
7. Another workaround suggested is that people set up a separate (non-Wake Up) alarm on their iPhone that will produce an audible alert. Doing so will produce an audible alert on the iPhone, and a haptic alert concurrently on the Watch, but this is not an acceptable solution. As I said in (1), many people prefer the Wake Up alarm chimes and like to use Sleep Schedules to manage them.
8. Yet another workaround suggested is to charge your Watch on your nightstand during sleep, since there's a Watch setting that allows Watch alarms to be audible even when the Watch is on Silent mode. This is also not acceptable, because, like I said in (2) people want to wear their Watches to bed to track their sleep, and Apple has designed great sleep-tracking features for this purpose.

All of these facts collide to making it very difficult to get woken up by an Apple Watch when you're using its Sleep features as Apple has designed.

If there's anything I missed, I encourage people to reply to let me and others know. If not, I encourage everyone to be insistent in suggesting to Apple directly ways to improve their Watch alarms that are both sleep- and wake up-friendly.