everything is true because bounty hunters are only paid 1 to 2 percent of the total tokens that will be sold so it doesn't really matter with the bounty hunter If the project is good, of course there will be many traders so that token bounty that want to be directly bought by the trader
The traders can buy the tokens from the traders with the cheap price. In my opinion, if the reputation of the project will have determined the result of the token price. The hunters didn't give any impact for a good coin as it will always have a lot of volume and demand.