For Marriott award stays, the hotels don't get paid in points. Marriott pays/settles with the the property using government-issued currency and not the funny money of Marriott points. Given the payment structure for award stays, if the lodge fills up enough with regular paid rates, then the lodge should be fine with the award stays as long as Marriott agrees to stick to paying the lodge the going (cash-denominated) rate for the award stay at the time.

Unfortunately, I don't hold up high hopes when it comes to Marriott eating the cost for its doing business the way it does with Marriott loyalty program members. And I expect that eventually Marriott will either have a special (extremely high) point pricing arrangement for all-inclusive type properties or go with a fixed point-per-penny type ratio for rates at such properties and this lodge will end up being a case in point. And not only because of some pressure from property owners about the award night settlement rates/structure for when the occupancy is not high enough to get top billing by the property.