>>97769551Because of the decision to compete with CG, which was becoming more profitable than 2D, and possibly (I'm not 100% sure) due to CG animators not being fully union protected like 2D animators are, which is why there's a whole wage fixing scandal going on with the big studios and their CG animators.
I know stop-motion doesn't have a union, so I think it might be the same for CG, too.