Thanks everybody for all your comments.
I've actually done about a dozen bounties myself (mostly last September to December) and have had similar experiences as the rest of you. I'm doing research for an article I'm working on, mostly on describing bounty hunting to people who are not familiar with it.
That is helpful, but the way things go in crypto,,, it is normally just best that people learn on their own, because things change so quickly. Bounties were hot last year and so were airdrops but as more people got in and a lot of cheaters took tokens and dumped them, people realized this old way of doing things were becoming less and less effective. I think people also when they depend on information of others, they tend to blame other people when things do not go well.
Always remind people to take responsibility for themselves.
Is there a future in bounty? Probably yes, but it has to deal with the big issues of cheaters who use fake traffic and audience to make it look like they are popular.