As Scroll is already on the mainnet, there are speculations already that this L2 is going to be one of the most-anticipated airdrops ever. They have over $80M in funding before the launch of their zkEVM mainnet.
Scroll's TVL skyrocketed after 24 hours of the announcement from $100k to over $2.3 million.
I wish that this one is going to be the ideal airdrop that is going to scroll us up to the way back when airdrops are being trusted, if this is what is being targeted as you have said, then there's more possibilities towards this project success, there have been lot of scams in which has troubled people's heart towards believing on airdrops hunt but that doesn't mean there aren't few out there that can still be trusted as this one you're introducing.
What about the other past airdrops? I'm not talking about those 2017-era airdrops but those airdrops like ARB, SUI, Optimism, etc... I think many people still considered them as ideal airdrops because they pay really well. Rewards can also depend on the effort and the amount of money that we put it in.
There are still airdrops that are legit. It's just that creating crypto have became easy now or many people got involved with it and want's to try their luck as well. The only bad part is many of them are not producing a good quality project and many only want's to scam the public. If people want a secure income, there are better things that they can do than doing airdrops.