People are still giving airdrops a chance; if you look at X Empire channel and their data, millions of people are working for their airdrops, so much depends on X Empire if they follow Hamster's lead of giving dust to their users, then the succeeding airdrops might lose users because of people giving up on airdrops because of their experience with Hamster, Rocky Rabbit and now X Empire, There will be more airdrops that will likely disappoint participants.
If airdrops become worse, developers will have second thought of creating new airdrops because of people's disappointment.