2019 has been a year with mixed feelings for crypto enthusiasts. A lot of bounty hunters have now switched over to trading, because bounty is longer profitable.
Some that have combined the two (both bounty and trading), while larger percentage are still into bounty, despite not being profitable.
I envisage that in two to three years to this time, the population of people on bounty will reduce drastically, because it will no longer be profitable as it used to be.
There is no need to choose between the two, after all you can choose to have them both. I no longer joining bounty campaign since from 4 projects I joined, no one have paid me the right way or they pay but the coin has no value. I just choose to buy and hold as much as I can afford, in this way I could possibly gain good profit in the future. Bounty is still good, but you need to have a lot of patience.