I don't know if animated episodes is the answer. The one with the 10th Doctor wasn't well received from what I remember, and while I'm fine with the animated episode recreations on DVD, generally the BBC is extremely cheap so a cartoon based on a new story at this point would probably be so low in animation quality that it definitely wouldn't be helping the show.
Still, as long as Chibnail wasn't writing or producing it, I would check out a 13th Doctor animated story regardless of animation quality. An animated story would be the perfect place to go behind Chibnail's back and have a real Doctor Who story featuring the 13th Doctor. Bring a real Doctor Who enemy into the story, have real stakes that effect more then 1 or 2 people (and no, the episode about evil Space Amazon doesn't really count, especially because it was mediocre), and have the villains plan actually be a threat to a large group of people/the world, instead of shit like "stopping woman from getting on bus, which even if it succeeds would literally change nothing in the grand scheme of things because some person would have done something similar at some point during that time period anyway".
I just really want to see Whittaker actually play The Doctor at some point, and not just play a moronic pacifist who never does anything and travels with three cardboard boxes in human form. An animated story, even one that is done cheaply, probably has a better chance of doing that at this rate, especially during a gap year where Chibnail is probably to distracted to screw something like that up.
