I am open to differing opinions on this issue; what do you think ?
Don't blame anyone for risking your own money. First of all, we should do our homework first, on our own, and not just let influencers or social media bloggers do the job while some profit from just sitting and letting their money do the work.
As an average guy who gives importance to money, I won't just give away my money without making sure that it's a legitimate investment. There's always a way to check them out, the internet is broad and there might be people who already experience dealing with them with good or bad incidents, and that is where we could ask.
This forum is actually one of the good platforms to question one project and I have seen a lot of threads that were made here asking the questions that cannot be answered by Google.
Airdrop testnets today are purely speculations, don't believe on those who said that it's a guaranteed airdrop because you all will end up being disappointed.