I heard Rabat was supposed to be one of the fastest embassies, guess that changed. Some people on here are getting put through in 6 months or less without an interview. I guess once you are in the interview cue, it will be at least a year. We weren't told yet we needed an interview, but from what I see on here most applicants from Morocco get one. I hope the wait is over for you and your husband soon.
Yes, I suppose the new applicants could be getting through faster. I have been hearing different things about the processing times though. I heard they are counting applications that they are sending back because they are missing minor information as applications that they have processed - which I hear amounts to a lot. Some people on the appeals thread think they are turning down a lot more applicants just to say they have processed so many more applications.
I also read an article by an immigration lawyer who said that even though they raised the amount of applicants they are now accepting, they will still be turning down a lot more people by speeding up the processing time because they will reach their quotas of how many applicants they are allowed to accept for the year faster. He said they didn't increase the quotas in comparison to the amount of applications they are now processing.
It is a good thing for the people that have been waiting for years to get put through faster, but in my opinion I don't think it is fair to have yearly quotas and then to substantially increase the amount of applications they are putting through. It looks good for the government that they are processing more applications, but I don't think it is necessarily good for all the sponsors and applicants because they would have to be turning a lot more people down.
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/publications-manuals/departmental-plan-2017-2018/departmental-plan.html#sec06-3
I have attached the above link that shows the quotas because a lot of people don't think family sponsorship has quotas - Program 2.1 is the quotas for the number of admissions for total Family Class, humanitarian and compassionate grounds, and public policy grounds.