It is, as you've already pointed out, a matter of perspective. A player (like me, I'm ashamed to admit) who considers minesweeper an instinct akin to breathing will be able to focus on the dilemma between taking a risk or stopping, if they reach a point where taking a risk is required to progress. Of course, a minesweeper addict capable of playing without shutting their mind off (wait, that's why I'm playing it in the first place!) will recognise the mine and population densities as prior probabilities, and try to workout the conditional probabilities, and how they're likely to impact the outcome.