People wanted an alternative to the stab hit in the old version.
Paradox disagreed that there is any choice in seeing a chunk of rock flying through the sky.
They implemented the current "choice" as a tongue-in-cheek compromise.
I fail to see how people can argue about the choice being stupid. There is no choice. There never was. It wasn't intended as a choice either. It's a -1 stab random event.
I you don't find the textbox having two buttons instead of one funny, simply delete option b.
Or change the event, if you resent the idea of there being a random -1 stab event in game, but please don't treat it as an event with two options with one being broken. It isn't. There's no option in the event.