If the project is real, then obviously they will pay. If they already earn millions by tokensales, so they Won't hesitate paying small allocation of bounty payment. But if the project is fake, then what will you do what their tokens! Those Will be useless. Now bear market, so projects can't do well due to lack of investors. So mate, Don't get disappointed, just pick out some real projects instead of select all.
while they may make a lot of profit with the token sale, it will not guarantee a payout, as has happened before. Currently, the bounty for big profits has also been limited, because the amount has been determined in $, no longer in % of the amount sold.
at this time there will be no surprises that will be received by bounty participants and will still get what has been determined and the value is never large, even more who do not pay compared to those who pay.
I agree with what you said, it's wiser to sort out the projects that are guaranteed to pay compared to having to follow everything but the results are not optimal.