Apple Watch Series 5 bricked on watchOS 7 b8

My AW5 on b8 has had really horrible battery life, when charged overnight, the watch was not at 100% when I woke up. I've had to charge it like 5 times a day in order to get enough juice in to close my stand ring. I've tried changing to the Numero Duo watchface thinking maybe there was a bug that complications get updated too often, but battery still drained like crazy. I kept always-on screen enabled though.

This morning when I woke up the watch was stuck in what looks like the setup or OS install ring. I would attach photo or include url to a photo but this forum software wouldn't let me lol, I'll put it in a code block:

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/q0vt629rhiwq62f/IMG_3831.jpeg?dl=0


I'm on a 3-ring streak for 260 days, AW5s are actually not in stock almost everywhere around here, I had to order an AW3 (only thing available) from Prime Now so I can close my rings until I get this AW5 fixed or exchanged. Good timing coz Time Flies event is in 2 hours lol, Apple Store site and app down so I can't even order one for pickup.

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quick update: after a while I saw an option to unpair, did that, now setting it up as new. Picked up an AW5 from a local Apple Store just in case though, and S6 incoming, hopefully soonish.