I would rather the policy was not changed. Most people can see that a short but important article could be expanded. I think the articles show up on the stub list anyway for folks to work on. Basically the change means that other peoples work is to be thrown away.
I think you misundertand. He isn't talking about deleting stubs. He's talking about deleting articles with NO content at all, so there's no "work" to throw away. And I'm entirely on Toby's side--no article at all is much better than an article with no content.