I mean, they don't necessarily need a big budget to create something that is slick and effective. They just have to be clever about it, which I think in many respects they are. I may not like Portugals run of entries recently (like at all) but they've got some pretty decent results from very simple staging. If Portugal were getting tragic results and everything just looked so bad year after year i'd get it being a major concern, but I think for Portugal it's necessarily isn't. That said though, idk what domestic politics etc is around the arts in Portugal but they should adequately be invested in - that is where some other countries excel so massively when it comes to the arts.
