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 no longer profitable.
Some 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.
True, bounty is no longer what it used to be and you are also right when you say some are switching over to trading, but if the population the do bounty switches over to trading, bounty might just become profitable again to the few remaining