The more people that prepare for these airdrops, the smaller the rewards.
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.
I appreciate you teaching your friends, truly, at least there would be something in the end after all the effort, because experience is what is truly invaluable, in my opinion.
And the Tap2Earn - they may be worked around, but only with big enough farms to compensate for the future allocation.