Fair enough. Ultimately the decision would have to be voted on, and it's certainly within our power to maintain some sort of artificial incentive to crunch smaller projects if that's what we decide we want. Alternatively, we might find other ways to make sure that projects get the crunching power they need - like developing a tool that allows new users to spread their processing power equally across all projects (or something like that), or increasing education efforts so that crunchers know about the importance of the smaller projects. In general, I think that eliminating the artificial incentives eliminates a huge distraction from the actual projects themselves, which is actually one of the reasons I started writing on this topic (I mentioned this in my earliest posts regarding Gridcoin's incentive mechanism).