Separate your investments and your purchases of the cryptos that you like to hold and your airdrop participation and activities.
If someone is relying too much with airdrops, it's full of uncertainty and you'll never know if your time will be worth it with those. And that's why if you're going to hold, hold and buy.
While pursuing your holdings, you're free to participate in any airdrops that you can see. You need to set your goals in both of them.
Yeah airdrops are uncertain even though they have promised distribution on a certain date sometimes it is always postponed, and don't know if the results will be worth it or not, which is clear airdrops should not be used as a mainstay for income, just consider it as a bonus for work in your spare time.
Apart from buying or investing, this must be differentiated, I always pursue ownership of certain coins with my own money, not relying on airdrops because it is clear that nothing is certain in airdrops.
Sometimes it is worth it but for most times, it's not. Anyone shouldn't really rely on airdrops as their main source of earning crypto. While it is a good one as it is free money, there are airdrops that requires some investments too for better distribution.
With that, only the ones that are dependent on it will be able to invest that much. But for those that are only treating it as a secondary way of earning crypto, they're the ones that are doing better.
Treating it as a full time isn't a good decision.