It's not some idealistic referendum on contracts.
It's the practical utility of what's to be gained by being positioned as the team that's going to restrict movement. Right, wrong or indifferent, in the marketplace that's not going be something that players and agents just gloss over.
It's something I'd make sure got handled privately if I am UW. You can still hold him to the contract but refusing to let him go into the portal just looks spiteful and, again, as a player looking at UW vs anyone else, you are now going to have to explain that and why would I as the player care that you "won" the argument and enforced your contract?
Pyrrhic victory if the rest of the market isn't doing the same thing.
