A possible reason why Season 3 is so... rushed.

Call it cope all you want, but I am dying on this hill.

Ever since S3 was announced to have 12 episodes, a lot of people dreaded the future of the 100 GF anime for good reason. They're cutting out a lot of chapters after all.

However, I do have a possible reason why they're rushing through Season 3:

They wanted to get the controversial GFs out of the way.

It is already known throughout the fandom that this season will be the great filtering of the anime-onlys, as all of the controversial GFs are in this season, but what if that was actually intentional from Bibury's part?

Not the filtering, but the clumping together of all the controversial GFs into one season. They put all of the questionable GFs in one season so that they can be approved for a S4. Since now the studio can guarantee that there wouldn't be any more controversial GFs, it'll be more likely to get approved since it's smooth sailing from here. That means they can take their time with the next seasons since they're not in any danger of getting cancelled anymore.

Besides, there's another reason as to why it is even more possible for the anime to slow down its pace once S3 is over. The manga.

Right now, we're in GF 37, and Rana had just been introduced to the family. However, because of Nozawa's maternity leave, the manga has considerably slowed down. If the anime continues to prioritize introducing more GFs per season, they'll catch up to the manga and run out of content to cover. They cannot afford to do that, which means they're going to have to slow down at some point.

I know that this is all rambling and speculation, but I want to cope.