It hasn’t changed—you can still escape after being discovered. It seems like there might be an issue with how the scene exits. I’ll take a look at that.
I discovered it on the elven stage, after I decided to switch tactic and instead of aiming for higher level of arousal, I aim for faster increase of the pleasure meter(main screen, getting it filled results in cumming), since the lower the level of arousal, the faster it fills, this kind of fails if you wait for the time to run out to maximize the efficiency. Yes, I am blocked this way in interaction levels, but if bonus points for cumming are higher overall than if you level up arousal, it makes sense to play greedier this way.
So it makes at least two approaches possible:
1. Economical play.
2. Conservative, interaction-based play.
In fact, since I could not check it properly, because game crash, if it doesn't work this way, you can slightly adjust numbers if you want player to choose between options between interaction variety and PP payout. But PP focus would be efficient if only you do everything perfectly in terms of time usage effiency.
As for me, I'll wait for an update, since it might actually affect progression.