Totally agree with you. Bounty is a good way to attract extra attention for the project, but there should be fresh news, announcements about partnerships etc. to make people interested in the project.
Bounty should be extra than what you do because it is not worth it and only a handful of projects form those 1000's in a year will work and give you money and rest will be totally worthless. So better to keep it aside and work on something new.