[8note]

What's really being discussed is whether the game works well though/you'd want to play it

Whether you lose on move 1 or move 2 due to bad luck is not a big difference

[elcomet]

There is some luck involved in minesweeper anyway.

[CodesInChaos]

There are some variants without luck. For example there was one which guaranteed that you never get a mine when you have to guess, but always get one when you guess in a situation where you can still open another field safely.