How about this --

Learn how to coast with one foot unclipped.

Better yet, learn how to stand on your clipped-in pedal and dangle your free foot while coasting.

You should be able to do this on plain platforms, too. 8-year-olds usually can do it.

I think it'll take five minutes to learn.

*adding on* How about learning how to coast with one foot unclipped and hanging free, and the other foot NOT clipped in but, instead, with its heel or midsole on the pedal. This is actually kinda hard to do, but only if you have smooth-soled road shoes.