Yes, that's what bounties these days make us.
That's correct. And it's the fault of bounty hunters, not the fault of the project "owners".
In the past you knew about how many $ or
BTC to expect at the end of the bounty. Some bad ones may have been slip in, but a good number of them was predictable. Or maybe I was simply lucky.
But bounty hunters started to flow in and the competition has became so big that nobody had the time and willingness to do a basic background check.
Then I stopped doing bounties. Others have continued and now they're crying. If you guys like to work all day for
the vague promise of a carrot on a stick, they'll offer you that and nothing more.
The labor market is also supply vs demand. And the supply is huge...
Edit: I forgot to mention, some still think that Bitcoin-paid signatures are bounties. Imho they're not. They are by far a different category, they are predictable.