Thank you. Maybe by looking at your example it will start to make sense to me.
I figured out why the production "Options" didn't work for me. I had to enable the Product Option Combinations add-on. That add-on is now labeled as [Deprecated] so it wasn't automatically installed. Without it installed, I received a 404 (Page Not Found) when I tried to edit the in stock amount. An error message with an explanation would have been nice.