It's not really because Bryan Pellegrino isn't bothered by it, it's because they don't really have a choice. These things will always get gamed, so their move is either go on with the airdrop, look the other way and say they're not bothered with it or cancel the airdrop and do something like what SUI did. The latter would def be frowned on by the community. Esp the ones who already done their fair share of sweat equity in using the protocol. Lol.
To date, there are 2.7 million addresses in LayerZero, which far exceeds the number of addresses that have received airdrop from Arbitrum. Thus, the team will definitely face a dilemma: pay a small amount of coins to each address or reduce the number of addresses by introducing stricter criteria for receiving airdrop.
I think the latter is the better option imho. I mean they have to as not doing it would like give more possbility to still be airdropping some amounts of tokens to just one guy who botted the airdrop with multiple wallets. And there's also a better chance to reduce the tokens ending up with the botters than having the honest users missing out on the airdrop. But again, IMHO.
Where'd you get the info that there's 2.7 million eligible addresses?