Shorter processing times (i.e. easier applications), less wasted ITAs, PRs already "landed", further incentivizing 100k per candidate per year on Canadian degrees. Travel restrictions was the excuse, not the reason.
Do you have the actual numbers? I'd love to take a look. I don't consider reading canadavisa threads as being representative of the actual situation. And this forum is not proof of anything. It's as reliable as immitracker, if not less so. And we can all agree on how shitty immitracker is to form any consensus with.
I mean I hope you're right, but I doubt it.