It also allows color and aesthetic options that live action cannot hope to achieve.

Such as here where the blue of the water and redness of the hair hair massively oppose one another to draw your eye directly where they want it. Same with the shadowing drawing your eyes to the boat in the top image.

Whereas the live action is just washed out and boring, your eyes cannot focus as easily on where the film wants them to be and they instead wander to judgemental details.