apple watch series 9 touch screen not working after software update

I purchased an Apple Watch Series 9 to replace my old Series 1 about 2 months ago. The watch worked great until a forced software update a week ago, I didn't realize I had auto-updates set to on. Once the software update happened, the watch battery began to rapidly deplete and the touch screen was not working properly. I re-synced the watch and deleted my previous settings. While I was able to resolve the battery drain by doing this, the touch screen was still unresponsive. A few days later, randomly, I took a shower with the watch on and suddenly the screen started working again, totally normally. Then 24 hours later, the touch screen again stopped working. The compass wasn't working either, after several restarts I got that to work, but the touch screen is still useless. I have tried cleaning the screen, it doesn't do any good.

Any ideas? Extremely frustrating that a brand new product would be so glitchy and broken. Also, another cautionary tale about Apple software updates, I've disabled auto-updates because all I want is a watch that consistently works and I have no faith anymore in Apple updates. I would almost rather my watch get hacked frankly, if it would just work properly the rest of the time.