I believe layerzero seems promising but the team said that they don't have plan in releasing any token yet therefore there won't be any layerzero token in the meantime, I think the coin that's promising and close to some good increase is sei.
The Arbitrum team also regularly made such statements that there would be no airdrop and we all already know how it all ended. You should understand that the issue of a coin is literally money out of thin air, not only for the participants of early testing, but also for the project team.
well then again it comes back to the devs team decision, everything unclarified for reason, maybe they just trying to look at the circumstances, after all clarifying nothing means they are free from the responsibility of fulfilling their promises, in the case of arbitrum, that indeed caught many off guard and the airdrops was massive.