One theory I’m guessing is that since Mando was one of Disney+‘s first big shows (and the first live-action Star Wars show), it was crucial that it would be a big hit. I think they are generally maintaining that budget because how big of a hit it was, and because of Favreau. But now Disney+ is throwing money around everywhere to produce constant content for their platform, now they have less money to divvy out to all of their projects.

I read somewhere that new man in charge at Disney is also known to be pretty stingy where as Iger would throw money at projects, so maybe that’s a factor. But I have not done any research on that so that might not be true at all.