If you mean, did animation production grow during the pandemic, then for our studio the answer is yes. Production grew since animation crews could mostly keep working at home and studios/networks needed content for their streaming systems same for demand for commercials.

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I did not notice this, so i think not?

Gonna admit I don't know how to gage it but I don't believe so. It's about as popular as it was pre pandemic, meaning there's absolutely a huge demographic for it and I don't want to act like it's not "popular" but I don't think Covid got more people into it. Maybe though, I really don't know lol

I follow the production of a couple, animated shows, and it seemed to make things easier. Animators are able to go home with their hardware and still produce work, voice actors could do their own recording in makeshift sound booths (closets with clothes became useful) and for the most part production was able to keep going on schedule. One example, and one of my favorite shows, Bob’s Burgers really didn’t have any significant break in production as far as I was aware of.

Of course I’m no expert :-)

Edit: I mis-read the post and misunderstood the question.

No I don't think animation is any more successful than what it's always been. And maybe a few live-action shows were postponed, but it's not like we had any noticeable shortage of selections.