Unemployed becoming bounty hunters is most likely true. It may not be as profitable as before but anything that you can kill time and still earn is still better than spending the whole day playing games and browsing with no payment.
Somehow, being unemployed from 2017 until now is a pleasant thing for me, because working as a bounty hunter since 2017 until now has greatly helped my life as unemployed. But it can be said that in 2018 until now the Bounty was very bad in payments, but I would not just give up.
I am sure that many people will have the same things as you because with join as the participants in one project can give them a big reward and that is why many people still join in many projects.
But the situations is not the same as 2017-2018, which we know that right now, many projects were not paid their participants, and many of them still delay the payment to the participants.
But I think if the market can increase and the bull run is coming, that will give a chance for every project to get a new price so they can send the rewards to the participants and they can sell the token/coin to make money.