You can look at it as payment for people who spent their funds on uniswap fees.
If you made a lot of transactions last year you maybe saved even more than $1200 on fees.
I have a peculiar question about this 400UNI giveaway - what if one person was using several wallets and made some transactions on uniswap with each one of them, will this person receive 400UNI per each wallet?
If so - that is ridiculous