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I don’t really see that as a nightmare scenario. Slowly suffocating is easily more nightmarish than dying quickly.
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It depends.
If its a pin hole in the pressure hull that gives way at pressure a pencil thin jet of water explodes inwards. if it hits someone it leaves a hole in that person. Then as the atmosphere compresses its likely that your ear drums burst your sinuses and lungs collapse. Then there a good chance that the pressure causes the atmosphere to ignite.
On the other hand yeah, Carbon dioxide poisoning isn't pleasant at first. You get a bad migraine headache, you get nausea, confusion. Then a coma and death.
At this point its a pick your poison.
I remember when I was in the army, I had serious thoughts that I wanted to flip to the navy and the submarine service. I thought it would be cool and looked into it.
Beyond spending a few weeks at sea smelling 24 hour farts and body odor. Not being able to pass people without rubbing against them. The lack of sun shine and the confusion of day and night. The thought of basically imploding if something went wrong really disturbed me.