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Is your garage detached from your house where your main panel is? If so, you're not allowed to run more than one branch circuit to detached structures.

You may protect those ceiling or otherwise 'not-easily-accessible' receptacles on the load side of a readily accessible GFCI receptacle, or accessible GFCI dead front. If you want your GDOs on an isolated circuit (perhaps so that you may put it on a backup generator panel) then you can also...

That's why I suggested putting in TWO new boxes, one to the left of and the other to the right of the existing box, with a NEW length of cable in between. Kind of like going from a single-tower suspension bridge to a "taller" two-tower suspension bridge... ;)

If you don't have enough slack to lower the existing box to below the countertop, is the wiring feeding down from the ceiling so that you can raise the height of the outlet to above the backsplash? If the wiring is feeding left/right through the studs, perhaps eliminate this problematic...

This is true only under the 90*C column. However most if not all conductor terminations and connectors are rated at a lower temperature.