I agree with you that it would be great to have a table telling me how much GRC I can get out of my hardware. What we would need for that is an easy way to compare the amount of computations one has done.

For that, Boinc provides RAC and Credit. As far as I know, the goal is to get away from RAC to the Credit difference one has achieved between two superblocks to calculate the reward. This will simplify the reward calculation because then we might be able to simply calculate GRC/Credit (will change over time with changing team credit, but slowly) and give better information.

The problem now is, how do we compare different projects? The Credits generated on each project for the same computation is - mildly put - not the same. It is impossible to compare Credits for project1 to Credits for project2. Therefore we would either need a reference system for each project that we know completes the same computational work on each project and use this system to calculate the reward for everyone or we need another factor. What I think will be hard, is finding one. It can't be CPU-time, since my 5 years old pentium processor can crunch much longer on the same task as my threadripper. I have no idea what it cold be, ideas are welcome.

Gridcoin is not based a hashing function that calculates several thousand/million/billion hashes per second on a machine and can therefore be easily compared. We rely on real life computation and that is the beauty and the burden of Gridcoin.

As for giving different amounts of GRC to different projects, I still don't particularly like that. Who determines the amount? Who determines the value of each scientific field? I don't like the idea of either a centralised power nor of voting. Because the voting is based on a tiny share of all users (a lot of people just don't vote) and would therefore not reflect a well balanced base.

To conclude this: I personally like that I have to tweak around projects to find the optimal reward. It is of rewarding to find a project that gives me 10% more mag and therefore GRC. I think we should leave Gridcoin the open place it is now for scientific computations and not start to value it.