But now you do not even know if you will get anything out of those activities, as the developers can choose a criteria that disqualifies you and many others that did the same, and since this is a decision taken unilaterally by the developers, I would guess that in many cases they choose a set of standards that affects most of the bounty hunters and that instead benefits them.
Airdrops were once profitable but now they are a waste of time. You have do a bunch of task in order to qualify for an airdrop before a deadline without even knowing what will be amount. You are right about airdrop but in recent past there were a few on the Solana which gave a decent amount. The last big airdrop was when a popular DEX on the Ethereum blockchain gave it users a good amount depending on the number of transactions each user made.
Don't let us just conclude that doing airdrop is a waste of time. Let's wait for what the next bull run will speak for us. With what I read from this post, I can see that alot of airdrops have favoured alot of individual especially during the previous bull run and this is why I hope for same thing again in the next bull run.
But what happens with those that did not picked that coin or the ones that did so but did not received any airdrop despite their best efforts? For all of those people airdrops are a waste of time, and we cannot argue against it just because a few people made money by doing this.