I'm saying this from experience: It's not worth it.
Airdrops and all new projects that promise they are going to compensate their early members or users with tokens after their TGEs or listing don't do that to provide benefits to users. Still, they do it because they know they are going to get free promotions and advertisement by doing this since people who hear about this will tell others, and such things spread like a fire in a forest these days because people who are new in this space are always looking for ways to earn free money. They consider these to be great opportunities.
However, the reality that I have seen so far is that they don't compensate you enough for your efforts, and I'm saying this because I have tried all these things myself in the past. I have participated in airdrops of new protocols since they became a trend after the successful airdrop of Arbitrum, where some users earned great returns for their participation as early birds. And I have also used the current trending airdrops, which are the mini-bots in Telegram; I wouldn't be wrong if I say that it's all only a waste of time and efforts, and even if you spend money, you will barely get enough money back for what you've spent and the time you have wasted.
Almost agree. If you do mass spay & pray you get mostly what you put in back. Sometimes get lucky. Won't go into specific projects though. Takes a lot of practice to learn who to do it with a higher expected return. Also, how to correctly time. Etc etc. Experience ...