There will be no such success in bounty as it was in 2017. You need to accept that. Now you need to choose projects for participation very efficiently and do not put high hopes on them.
DYOR is a must and everyone is not even forgetting about that and if we are going back again to 2017 and at that time there was a lot of the scam projects too. As far as i know if in 2017 so many serious developers who are still interested to develop the new product. It doesn't mean if the golden year can't comeback again.