I've finished 2 bounties from sylon right now and haven't get any paid, what happened in bounty nowadays makes bounty hunters not pay attention to it anymore. And right now there's no light point of this.
sylon also still has debts of two paid project towards me and until now there has been no news. I heard that he was often on the freeze in this forum because of the wide variety of reasons.
Maybe we see this time for many emerging managers and even that of ICO's own party. It may, on the other hand, they want to save cost. because of the bounty used to pay on a manager then it is better than they treat themselves.
In my opinion, this does not save much cost.
A project manages bounty thread by itself, so it needs to arrange some employees to do this, and these employees are doing other work. In other words, he still has to pay the salary of these employees, and may delay other work for this.
And almost all of their own employees are lack of experience in managing bounty campaign, so it is very lame for the management of the bounty, and the efficiency is certainly not as high as those of the professional bounty managers.
Therefore, I dont think it would be a better choice to manage the bounty by own.