I mean that they can afford to pay the animators better because they're more productive with the production methods they use for the project. Or in other words,

I mean that they can afford to pay the animators better because they're more productive with the production methods they use for the project. Or in other words, the management cuts costs more. I've seen animators talking about how they'll only use one line weight when drawing a character to save time or things like that as well. That's not the entire reason of course, they also have larger budgets.