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.
Fees are just excuses and if they do really mind off with that thing then they should at least tell the public or the participants on having that kind of problem for them to
understand the situation and wont really be making out some further fuss about or towards the project and also those project owners do need to show up some transparency.
You can eventually able to detect out to those teams which are really that paying off their participants compared to those who dont have any plan at all since from the beginning.
These had been a common problem of most bounty hunters which you wouldnt even know if you get paid or not after all the work that you had done in months or more time.