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The problem with that is that a majority of officials were not calling it correctly: contact (rough play) that should have been a foul was routinely ignored. There was a lot of shoving and pushing with no calls. They gave up on getting the officials to make the call and eliminated the situation.
The only advantage to the defense in going in on the release is that they have more time to push the offensive player away from the basket.
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I'm aware of the history behind the rule change. I just hate that the rules were changed because officials didn't do their jobs. *I* never had any problems calling rebounding fouls. Just like now I don't have any problems calling off-ball fouls even though half the officials I watch work (mostly JV officials before my games) are notorious ball-watchers.
Instead, now we have people on the lanes trying to game the system by sliding in the lane RIGHT at the last minute. Technically, we have violations on just about every free throw, but nobody (including me) calls it that way.
I'm just venting. I just hate how they dumb the rules down so that they don't have to worry about officials. They did that in NFHS baseball, too, with the automatic appeal back in the 80s. It took more than a decade for them to realize how stupid that rule was and change it back to match the other codes.
Rich