This was my first thought. You basically will have zero actual escapes at this point. You can simply release a guy who is about to get an escape. And even then it becomes yet another judgement call by the ref? That would make it even worse.
The only way I can see this maybe working is by declaring you are releasing a guy before the start of the period when they take down or on the restart. But that just means guys can game the system who are up one point and aren't good at riding. Let's say they are up one point with ten seconds to go and there is a restart. Now they don't have to ride for ten seconds, they can opt for a no point release and run around the mat for ten seconds to win. It just makes no sense.