Points programs work because users trust there’s a payoff.
Walk away without compensating them, and you don’t just close a project. You make every future airdrop campaign harder to believe in.
I don't like the trend of projects shutting down pre-TGE and being seen as somewhat heroic because they didn't extract.
It's incredibly disingenuous because people burn thousands, sometimes tens of thousands of dollars farming these airdrops, I know people who are down five figs on Abstract memes or paid high four figs in StandX fees.
Not doing a TGE just for the sake of it *can* be heroic, but only if there's adequate compensation for the people who used the products in justified expectations of being rewarded