I totally agree but as far as I know the points are not measured by the war win charts. So the first wars gave different points already depending on where in the acre charts kingdoms were located. If I am wrong about this, it would be nice if someone would correct me. But from the looks of it so far, if a #1 kingdom beats a #10 kingdom at 90% opponent size, they would get more points than a #40 kingdom beating a #30 kingdom at 110% size.
And I am not saying the higher ranked kingdoms asked for this change or even wanted it actually. The effect is just that the last chart available to kingdoms that don't want to sit and pump and grow is now gone as well.
A lot of warring kingdoms are not opposed to growing at all, contrary to what the general opinion here seems to be, they just don't want to sit and explore and pump for days between wars. Preparing 2-3 month for 2-3 wars just doesn't seem as fun. If the goal is to have kingdoms be bigger there are a million better ways to achieve that. For starters the suggestion of letting the kingdom decide where to stick the won acres, exploration in eowcf(with the province pool that shouldnt be a problem anymore), Elite credits, raze credits, faster wizard growth in eowcf or anything else actually useful to make filling out acres. In other words grow competition instead of just acres.