Lol $50,000 is nothing if you were around in the era of ICO. Airdrops were so rewarding, even the ones that were of meaningless tokens. I remember getting an airdrop of some random token and even forgot about selling off the coins, the token value would then go up to around $4k.
So yes, just like we saw faucets die out, airdrops will also become completely meaningless and a waste of time in the near future. In fact, most of them are already useless.
During the ICO era way back in 2016–2017, it can really be said that those times were good; even with the airdrops back then, which were simple, you would get immediate rewards just for signing up, and with ICOs, the earnings were really big.
unlike now that those who do airdrops are no longer easy; instead, they will make it difficult where you have to use oera just to be a qualifier for the rewards.