when pancake are busy burning all their tokens in the name of reducing circulations and increasing price. they will never conduct such airdrops. PancakeSwap has never conducted any form of airdrops to their users. i think they are greedy,
Burning is quite different to airdropping a coin. Each action has its own causes and consequences.
1Inch hasn't a liquidity problem, so no need to think about a Coin Burn or a locked supply. In simple words, it took a great part from the fees it earned and send it back to users. While PancakeSwap has the Burn phase a basic development step.
Projects like 1inch will only end up winning the heart of their investors, another project that plan to do the same thing is Axie infinite, I heard they plan to give coins worth lots of money back to their early adopters too, this is what I meant by real support for the masses unlike projects that only care about burning off part of max supply that worth millions
Please check about the causes of Coin Burn held by some projects. It's not about greed neither about wasting supply that worth millions (as you said in your own words). You can even discuss the concept.
Early supporters can be awarded using different strategies and we saw how in such cases the project airdropped a part from the supply in addition to burn another part. In this case of 1Inch, the airdrop is a portion from the total gas fee earned by the 1Inch team, means the circulating supply is the same.