Many languages don't have MT at all, and we don't have a proper way to grade those that we do have. I don't dismiss your opinion that it's bad for Norwegian; you are probably correct. But we don't have a way to do it for everything.

More importantly, our analysis of entry points shows that these gray links are not actually used by many people, so their impact on the number of translations, good or bad, is negligible. I find this surprising, because the interlanguage links are quite notable, at least for people who know Wikipedia well, but that's the fact. In my long-term strategic vision they should become the main entry point for translation, but the reality shows that it will need design work to become really effective.

I'll leave this open, to be discussed when we do this redesign work, but it's not something that is actionable now.