This feature is stage 4 and will be included in the 2018 edition of ECMA-262.
Summary: ES6 template literals forbid certain escape sequences, like `\u{not hex}`. But tagged templates expose to user code the raw code points of the template literal, and some applications only care about those. As such, this stage 4 TC39 proposal allows such invalid escape sequences in tagged template literals. The "cooked" value of such a template (that is to say, with escape sequences interpreted), which is also exposed to user code, is `undefined`.
Interop risk: This new language feature allows syntax that was previously a SyntaxError, so compatibility risk is low.