1. Not really. You might not just be investing that much time into getting into a legit bounty. It's not like the bounties would avoid you. Maybe your instincts only tells you that. 

2. Same as #1.

3. I am not sure whether there are really so-called alt coin season or I might not really just investing that much in alt coins, but all I can see always in CMC is that it just seemingly follows each other's price decrease like a domino. It just doesn't seem like there would be a coin that would dominate increase over the whole market.