Well option two is ok. That is the one you asked about. I understand you fear of hitting failure on a rep. And holding the weight over has no real disadvantage other than time progressing. It may actually have some advantages since in a way it allows a little rest while maintaining what you have. I think that someone should be able to do what their instinct tells them too if it is within reasonable parameters.

However, almost hitting failure and squeezing out that last hard rep has it's own reward. This is something that helps make you stronger in itself. It builds the motor pathways and strengthens weaknesses. Is it necessary for what you are doing? Maybe not. But is this something you need to get over? Yes.

I work out at home in my squat rack with no spotters and I rely on the safety catches all the time. I just "relied" on them the other day. No problem. The trick is to have at least an idea of what you can do or can't do. And remember you are STRONGER on the negative. When you fail on the positive you should still be able to lower the weight in a controlled fashion with no problem. You'll just gently set it on the catches. It the weight just drops out of the air then that is something else besides simple failure. Now I have to wiggle my way out from under the bar but I am perfectly safe.

Waving the load is a good idea for when you have been on program for a long time and continued progression by normal means is in question. But by that time it would make more sense to be microlading. By the time you were to turn that microloading into waved microloading it stops making sense.

The waved loading is a way of varying the intensity across the weak which is exactly what you need to do when you get past the beginner stage. The question is what makes more sense, doing Sentinels thing with smaller jumps in weights? Or would the load varitation allow you to make bigger jumps again? Or would it make more sense at that time to go to an intermediate 5x5 program? I'm not really sure.

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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.