Also you'll notice even with the leaps and bounds we have had in technology, a lot of new cartoons have WORSE quality than a lot of shows where the animators were still painting on cels. It's embarrassing. Animators overall have gone down in skill level... remember the Mary Poppins animated penguin debacle? Link:
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/12/mary-poppins-returns-animation-production-design
2D animators with skill still exist, obviously, but have become far more rare... they needed to rehire some of the greats just to manage the scene. It's actually sad.
The ugly "cal-arts sjw" style isn't some new, original, great thing. It's a shortcut to make animation easier. People require lower skill to pull it off and more shows are mass produced. With anime they usually sacrifice animation and frame rate(less art per second) for much more detail on the characters. Western cartoons sacrificed detail for more fluid animation overall. But recently with a lot of new western shows, there is no animation improvement at all.. and the characters are simplistic + ugly. No wonder people are running to anime.