It really doesn't matter much to me. It all will end up in proper use anyway.
But for all I know, most of the projects I participated in offers payment in tokens and not in USD.
I can earn USD in some other ways, like daytime or office jobs, but it cannot give me cryptos in any way.
So may be, at some point, I prefer earning cryptos.
When you say it that way, I wold then prefer earning stakes than USD. Surely, we can earn it daily in our office or any other facilities/stores/agencies that require our services. But any of those don't offer earnings in cryptos.
And crypto is highly volatile, despite that, if you are clever enough, you can earn satisfying profits from it.
So, yeah, I prefer it in stakes.