Option 1 CAN work, although I can count on one hand how many times I've seen it work on these site, among the thousands of affairs I've studied over the past few years.
This is what I really needed to see, some kind of statistics. I hope you are not exaggerating much, because if it is true what you're saying, I'm about to get on board.
This reminds me of that movie "Dumb and Dumber" when the woman tells the man there is maybe one out of a million chances, and he says, "So there is a chance".
It is not about what you feel should work in your M. It is about doing the work that gets the right results. Do what works!