It's totally different from 2017, indeed. With the lack of funds and all, whether the project is legit or naw, it's inevitable. Wait, even with a project that claimed have reached their milestone, they're still giving excuses. Worst part is if it never comes to an exchanges.
But who are we to blame. The only thing you could do is take it or leave it.
It's a disastrous situation for bounties now as legit projects are failing to prosper due to the gloomy market situation and I have seen posts about some legit projects in meta and scam section wherein user who have no better job are trying to make projects look scam without any evidence. I think we should be avoiding bounties for a while because of the following pattern which is going on from a year or so.
1. Projects not reaching the exchange despite achieving funds.
2. Tokens are not distributed to hunters because of fear that they will dump but investors dumps it and then hunters receive tokens which are worthless.
3. Developers runs away with funds
Bounty hunters wastes their times and effort for various campaigns to meet similar end. It's better to avoid it and take a break until someone good news arises.