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A matter of taste, both are fine grammatically. The verb "to do" isn't obligatory to form the present tense.

It’s not a matter of taste. You need an auxiliary verb to form a question, in this case the auxiliary verb “does”, e.g. “How does it work?”

It was fine if the question mark wasn't there

"It would be fine if the question mark weren't there."

The subjunctive in English is dead, let it die peacefully.

If I'm going to be prescriptive, I'm going all the way.

That’s exactly the kind of prescriptivism up with which I will not put.

Your comma is spliced.

And I’m going to continue to blithely ignore outdated grammar rules.