Personally I opt for having lots of weak vassals over a few strong ones. I tend to have lots of counts, and then just a few dukes so I don't have my hands full if things go south.
As for the not being able to strip titles, I have no idea, I suppose its just a gamey rule. Obviously yes I'd strip the guy of all power and banish him from my realm but you have to do it in a 10 step program of giving him chances until you finally have taken all of his lands and then can banish him.
The warscore is wonky as hell no doubt, but I think it has factors and 'points' under the hood we don't understand. For instance I was at war with scotland as England I had to nearly take all of scotlands lands for my war score to get 50% but they took york and I get -75% out of no where. That said I defeated the king of scotlands army at a war score of -90% and captured him and instantly got a 100% and the war was over.
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