As per usual there are some good arguments for and against nearly every question.
1. It's hard to say well only reputable members are allowed to do something as this is a forum, but the trust level a newbie has is 0. Why should hunters take the risk? I'll tell you why, overall bounties are not hard work at all like you see so many say. You click follow on X, you like a couple tweets, and repost a couple tweets. Or some simple task on another social media outlet. Overall a bounty hunter might spend 3 minutes on a task for a bounty unless it's a video or something that requires a little more talent.
On top of that, there's a large number of cheaters in bounties.
LARGE number of cheaters and duplicates, so very hard for the community to care to even help out at all. Seems like a big waste of time.
2. It's hard for a start up to escrow funds when half the time they are running a bounty to collect funds. Managers know this, which is why the disclaimer is used. They could escrow tokens that will be 100% worthless if a team runs. Only way I can really see tagging a manager is if he escrows actual currency worth something and doesn't pay out. Not to mention what examplens said.
2. There is always a problem with projects that pay rewards in their tokens, and there are several critical points. for example, the Token is often worthless, or the team can lock any token transfer, which means that the escrow is useless. Also, bounty campaigns often start long before the launch of tokens, so it's all a matter of "trust"
3. That brings problems now to question 3 because it's nearly impossible to have every project escrow legit money. It's possible that some projects will escrow tokens that are worthless or the team can lock, or escrow some USDT or other means of funds, but it would not be $50k or anything so essentially it's a useless argument.
4. Hard to say
5. Again some good arguments for and against. I would like to see teams have to provide documents and fully dox themselves since they are asking for money 99% of the time. Crypto world or not.
End of the day, Bounty hunters deserve to be paid for their work but know ahead of time they are taking a risk by joining any bounty. I don't really see the system changing over night.