The bounty hunter are only promised that the team will distribute the token when the price gas drop. But who can wait for fuel price to fall when hunter can see token price go up?
In my opinion, it is not certain when the gas will go down because people still want to use the current high fee. These are two things that continue to be a problem for all bounty hunter today. Apart from high gas price, they are also disadvantaged by delays in distribution.
It's understandable that projects are delaying the distribution. With thousands of participants, the project might spend up to $10,000 for the gas transactions which is not wise as it can be used on other expenses.
If you believed in the project and the team is doing great, trust them as you have no choice. The best proposal maybe is, they can ask their users to pay the gas instead which costs about $15-20 although not a good idea for those who have low rewards. Or maybe form an internal transfer within their platform.