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.
I agree with what you say, that now bounty does not provide income anymore, because many bounty fail and do not pay, even though there are bounty that still pay but the coin from the bounty have no price, so for now many people prefer to trading rather than participate in bounty, because trading is more profitable than participating in bounty. but I personally still participate in bounty, because I hope what I do for now will get results in the future (the price of the coin I get from the current bounty will increase very high).