In order to address that problem, we discussed ways to incentivize crunching smaller projects if they fall below a certain threshold; that solution is discussed in the third point of the "Impact of the Changes" section.
However, I'd like to point out a few things:
Personally, I advocate for total normalization without artificial incentives - I think that there are other ways to incentivize people to crunch smaller projects than the incentives that we currently have in place.
However, I understand that others in our community do not agree, and that's what the compromise was intended to address - there is still a way to economically incentivize crunching smaller projects whilst also dropping our current reward mechanism in favor of the one that I'm proposing. For that reason, I don't think that this issue affects the viability or desirability of adopting this proposal, since it also has many other benefits.
RE: Update to the Gridcoin Reward Mechanism Proposal