Well, not all of them. Some might have been the way you say it. But there are some pretty good project teams out there who take their hunters seriously. It is even more obvious when the bounty is being managed by a good bounty manager.
As per the project teams that take bounty hunters as trash, they hardly do well. A good project team should understand that the bounty hunters are helping promote their project. If they think it’s cheap to do and don’t acknowledge the benefits that come with it, then they have a problem with their PR.
From my observation, most of those projects that have taken their bounty hunters seriously have gone on to prosper.