My main point is that the main blame does not lie with the developers, but with the users. There are many grooms who specialize only in farming airdrops. They do not care about crypto, they do not care about the tokens that they are receiving or the project. They only care about selling it. They are the ones that have ruined it for most others.
I understand your point and in fact some projects who have failed in the past is because of Airdrop and bounty Farmers that plague the projects and getting tons of coins waiting to dump it when the coin gets listed on exchange, this have cause a lot of projects failure in the past, so we need to point that out in this discussions also.
This is debatable, and there have been cases in the past where users were blamed for projects. Very few projects that conducted large airdrops were successful. Even if farmers sold out of those projects, some projects remain viable and continue to expand their ecosystems. Uniswap is a good example, and Uniswap users also made good money. I regret missing this airdrop during that time. If I had received the Uniswap airdrop, I probably wouldn't have sold it, and even if I had, I wouldn't have sold it all.