I totally agree with you. In the past days obtaining free tokens through airdrops was much easier with simple steps and only having a wallet, as every wallet received the same amount it wasn’t necessary to have anything else. Recently though, there are more eligibility conditions for these airdrops which means the number of tokens per wallet will be different for each user. For example, the more engagement you have on social media such as retweets or hashtag mentions, the more tokens you receive.
However let’s not take it all as negative, as many projects are now implementing measures to prevent bots and duplicate claims using multiple cheating ways to receive the airdrop many times, it’s also fair rewarding others because of their engagement with higher token quantities.

This hype in airdrop activity is likely brought the bullish market in my opinion which lead to increased project launches, but I believe that it will eventually calm down once again.