No punch can definitely be detrimental. but thats the Remco-strategy: Try to not let explosivity and punch decide races. Thats literally the only gameplan he has which means murdering those riders from far out is the only legitimate strategy!
There should be plenty of races in which that's a winning strategy, especially with QS's ability to neutralize a chase behind. One question in my mind is how he can handle a really long, tough race -- will he still be able to attack from 30-50 kms out after 200 kms? Depends on the race, I guess, whether a break gets 10 minutes and the peloton cools its heels.
Overall, it's probably not a worse strategy than most. As the euro championships showed, he'll need to carefully pick time/place/companions for an attack but if he gets away solo he'll at worse explode the race and give QS a chance to win a reduced or bunch sprint, and at best he'll have a legendary win...