Learn side control escapes that don’t involve bringing your knee up to your face. There are plenty of them. Get the underhook and come up into a single/knee tap/ body lock. Ghost out into top front headlock and attack from there. The harpoon reversal. Bridge and hip over. Even going to turtle and reversing from there with a roll or sucker drag or whatever.
Every last one of the ones I mentioned do not score in IBJJF, though, so keep that in mind if that matters to you.
The biggest takeaway should be that your escapes and defenses all have a glaring common element that is easily exploitable by someone willing to use the proper weapon, so you should both learn escapes that have different, non-exploitable characteristics (for that same weapon anyway) and use them in combination with the escapes you already know to create unpredictable escape patterns that are much harder to prevent or punish.
