Shrug; I am well aware of how options work. Sox can send Sosa back and forth between the minors and majors for 2.5 more seasons. Their hands are not tied until 2025. If he's still looking at getting optioned in 2025 after 2.5 seasons in AAA, he isn't worth all the hand wringing.
I get the potential downside risk, but its fairly remote. If he was better prospect heading into 22, he'd have been added to the 40 man last December.
Like I said, calling him up for 5 days was a curious decision. To me it reeks of the a lack of communication between the FO and TLR. But this downside risk you laid out isn't really all that likely to come to fruition. I too would have just opted for a waiver wire pick, or Dee Gordon as you've pointed out, but I just don't think this is something worth skewering the organization over. There is plenty of other things to do that about.