If someone is relying too much with airdrops, it's full of uncertainty and you'll never know if your time will be worth it with those. And that's why if you're going to hold, hold and buy.
While pursuing your holdings, you're free to participate in any airdrops that you can see. You need to set your goals in both of them.
Apart from buying or investing, this must be differentiated, I always pursue ownership of certain coins with my own money, not relying on airdrops because it is clear that nothing is certain in airdrops.
With that, only the ones that are dependent on it will be able to invest that much. But for those that are only treating it as a secondary way of earning crypto, they're the ones that are doing better.
Treating it as a full time isn't a good decision.