They are, but to know why that is you must understand what has changed. Back in the golden days of airdrops, most people that were getting them or claiming them were already active crypto users. They got rewarded by luck as they were already participating in something, or they did extra activities to gather more crypto. In this time organized farming did exist but it was very small. As crypto became more mainstream, parasitic individuals came to the idea that farming airdrops is a job.
Now you have massive organized groups that farm airdrops all day long. They do not care even 1 percent about the project in which they are participating in. They do not care about the things they are writing about, whether it is true or not it does not matter to them. All that matters is getting the airdrop with the least amount of effort and selling them later.
Sort of. There is a balance, airdrops means marketing, so if the project gets more marketing than the tokens they distribute, then it will do fine, if it gets less then it will do badly. So let's assume that you distribute 10k tokens, and you.
It does not work well anymore, trust me. You won't even retain 0.01% of airdrop participants in your project, even if it is a really good project. Average projects stand no chance. This is the negative effect of letting organized farming exist.
Because airdrop perform badly, airdrops have become much worse. These individuals in the end ruined this for everyone. These days a good airdrop is very rare, and you should consider yourself lucky if you end up participating in one.