decrease in size and less distinctive is not parallel?

[zxc5433]

I think the reason is that decrease in size is a verb and less distinctive is an adjective. So we need to replace decrease in size with Smaller .

I am not sure whether my thought is right. Could anyone help me?

[RonPurewal]

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