Obviously from what he has said, he finds it difficult to really picky genuine airdrops favourable to him but however, I think he doesn't give it his all because if he does, he would not be talking like this about airdrops. As you have said about notcoin, I do not not doubt it. Notcoin has made people and more especially newbies that just joined crypto newly d have no knowledge as much as he does.
I believe this would leave a remarkable moment for the newbies because it is their first encounter with Crypto and they got rewarded for it in exchange of cool cash after transacting.
Though there is no doubt that free airdrops these days barely give you anything, there are a lot of good airdrops in the market these days where you might need to participate using some money, like making a few transactions, bridging from one blockchain to another, or participating in dapps, etc., but people are getting good profit from such airdrops from time to time and this is the reason why airdrops have become a trend these days.
Currently, there is Blast airdrop that is upcoming, and a very large percentage of participants are trying their best to have as many points as possible so that they can get good profit from the airdrop. It has become like a competition with these airdrops where people try to do as much as possible to get more money.