The funniest part is that 'straight up lose the war' was actually a pretty solid choice for the Jedi. It'd force the republic to face the consequences of its actions with regards to the outer rim, force palpatine to stall and delay the droid army, and it would give dooku and the separatists time to get a solid outer rim government going. There's a lot of negatives too I'm sure, but at least they wouldn't be personally leading enslaved people to their deaths against a droid army.