User blog comment:Misako szk/Bring back the previous animation/@comment-24784846-20150816145920

The old animation made fails too. However that changed with time. Besides that, I don't think you grasp the greater reason behind bad animation. The average anime salary in Japan is shockingly low.

According to a Japan Animation Creators Association survey of 759 animators, the average yearly income is 1.1 million yen or approximately ten thousand dollars. Which is less than a thousand bucks a month. And that’s working, again, on average, eleven hours a day. That’s rough for a country as expensive as Japan.

Now from what I know, there was staff change for the character designer position (Takeuchi Shinji replaced Yamamoto Aoi), and the series changed animation studios from Satelight to Bridge. According to Ishihira Shinji (the director of the Fairy Tail anime), the reason for the change and restart of the series was to "increase the quality of the show as a whole." 

I get what you are saying, even I miss the old animation in some ways, I feel they could better handle stretching an episode. However, we are going to have to accept it because we can't really change anything.

Also, this is a highly touched subject on the wiki that has gotten rather annoying. Just telling you in advance.