It's such an obviously bad policy, it's mind-boggling that they thought this was a good idea. It just breeds paranoia and mistrust, especially when people are already a bit paranoid about silent model quantification for cost cutting reasons.
Its not pranoia when entity you are dealing with cant be trusted and will do everything to abuse your trust.
Another "knob" is reducing the thinking time...
What's the alternative? Not release the model at all?
"Make the guardrails better" isn't very hard and probably not worth the effort.