Your variant is a valid analogy too, but the probabilities in your scenario between sticking and switching are so close to each other, it's not going to trigger any new intuition in someone who is already confused.
Don't think of the 100 door puzzle as an analogy with the 3 door puzzle, think of it as a class of puzzle where there are N doors, you can pick one, and then the host (who knows what's behind the doors) reveals N-2 fails. It's clear that the 3 door puzzle is a specific instance of that, and if you have understood something intuitively about that puzzle class through considering N being a large number, that will still hold for N being a small number.
The class of puzzles that you describe is M doors, where you pick one and then the host (who knows what's behind the doors) reveals one fail. The three door puzzle is also a specific instance of that puzzle, but I doubt that you've learned anything from that, since examining M at other numbers probably hasn't given you any insight (still, if it did, those insights are indeed applicable to 3 door Monty Hall).
I've tried a number of ways of explaining this problem to people, and empirically the 100 doors one is the way that seems to work best. Interested to hear any versions you tell that seem to help people understand whats going on.