Many bounty pools and allocations cannot be guaranteed cause no escrow service. I trust @julerz12 because the bounty allocation is already stored in the escrow service
I appreciate the way how managers manage to escrow bounty. Even CryptopreneurBrainboss, bounty detective can be add in trusted list who escrow most of bounty. But as op says, good bounties are very few. Escrow will be worthless if that are shitcoins. You wouldn’t like to received so many shitcoins after done your tasked! Escrow is always good but need to analysis before join even if that is a escrowed bounty
Yes, it needs to be appreciated with BM who have struggled to do before bounty to ask to do Escrow first, to prove the seriousness that bounty that will be carried out is really serious.
At least there is hope that it can be proven that there is good intentions to keep paying. Although it does not rule out the possibility like you said that it could be that what had been sent to Escrow was Shitcoin, so finally the same as fraud.
So Escrow is a form of responsibility that really needs to be continued even though it might be that later there will be shitcoin. But this is a progress that needs to be continued and if it can be added with full trust, for example Escrow must be in the form of USD that can be distributed if there is a deviation.
So bounty is not dead but is trying to continue to improve even though it may take time and all need to learn to continue to change.