I have some trouble believing the Savior really would have just calmly stayed on his knees while meeting his maker, considering Simon so quickly got invested in fisticuffs after Negan made that the go-to plan.
Had Simon and Lucille gotten intimate in such a sadistic way, the tension in those moments would have been thicker than Eugene’s hair.
So perhaps he would have indeed kept his impulses in check.
A certain amount of importance is embedded in the particulars of Simon’s onscreen death, but it still would have been awesome to see things play out as Steven Ogg described them.