Yeah, just guess, in this case you literally lose nothing since you have a shield up.
Basically, that's how the game was born. Frustrated with losing to 50/50s, I literally went "fuck this, I'm going to make my own minesweeper where you can take a hit and keep going". So I consider this a solved problem that doesn't really need a solution right now. I might rethink this in the future based on overall feedback, but it's not a priority at the moment.
This should also answer the comment below.