You're talking about two different things. A con needs growth or at least sustainable numbers or it can't survive. A corporation can eat the cost if it loses money, a con can't. Furry cons are none profit entities that survive on a year to year basis, shrinking means less money for the next year which means the con has to cut back on what it can do, which further shrinks its attendance. Not that there is any risk of that for most cons, the fandom has seen impressive growth overall in the past few years. Furry is on the up swing and cons are just going to get bigger at bigger, at least for now.
You're talking about two different things. A con needs growth or at least sustainable numbers or it can't survive. A corporation can eat the cost if it loses money, a con can't. Furry cons are none profit entities that survive on a year to year basis, shrinking means less money for the next year which means the con has to cut back on what it can do, which further shrinks its attendance. Not that there is any risk of that for most cons, the fandom has seen impressive growth overall in the past few years. Furry is on the up swing and cons are just going to get bigger at bigger, at least for now.