If we're to compare how Dogs performed with their rewards to that of Hamster Kombat I think I do agree with your thoughts that the number of participants in an airdrop project also influences the value of the rewards to be given. Dogs had a few participants and not less than about two months or so, they airdropped their rewards to the small community and it was large. But HK the level of hype got a lot of involved which probably wasn't what the developers envisioned. In some cases, it leads to postponements and extension of snapshots and listing date just to accommodate the larger community.
Airdrop in MiniApps is just a hype and now it is no longer worth working on. Reflecting on the airdrop project that has been launched, the income is likely to be very inappropriate for what we do. Therefore, instead of working on airdrop in MiniApps, I often advise some friends to focus on working on retro projects, testnet or running nodes. Because there the stage will provide added value for knowledge about the world of web3. While the results of the airdrop are certainly not guaranteed, at least there is experience that can be gained from how to build DApps, become a contributor and understand blockchain technology more deeply.
A lot of those who participate in these fruitless telegram miniApp airdrop projects are just after fast money so they don't really care much about having to go a about learning to acquire the knowledge you suggesting even though it's really going to be of immense benefit to them on the long run.
Although some of these people that are so entangled with these airdrop projects are without any good background of crypto knowledge, through a referral link that's how many of them got involved for the first time ever and started the daily mining tasks in anticipation for rewards at a listing date. So they don't even have any form of idea about other valuable knowledge necessary to gain which is more beneficial than airdrop mining.