from the past until now, airdrops always have the same pattern, if they don't pay, then they pay but don't have a price, if they have a price, it's probably cheap, and very few pay well enough. This must be understood, so that we don't have high expectations. Although Hamster has quite significant development, and very good advertising, the airdrop payments are not that good. While DOGS may not have an advertising system as good as Hamster, but pays its participants worth it. So, I think we don't need to give high expectations from the airdrops we work on.
I believe it is not fair to say that all projects have not paid rewards to their participants in the past, DYDX, Arbitrum , Optimism, Celestia (TIA) and many mores, have paid significant rewards to their airdrop participants, However, during the the recent trend of airdrop farming on telegram channes, few project made fair distribution of airdrops such as NOT and DOGS while majority have significantly disappointed their participants.