What I can tell you is that, no matter how long bounty or project managers or delay payment of bounty hunters, they will still pay cus if they don't, they will be tagged scam and the project may fail, ive seen this happen to ATS, payment to bounty hunters were abnormally delayed, at some point, participants got angry and started spamming the entire BTT thread of the project and calling them scammers, even those who bought ico got angry and started dumping the token, they thought paying bounty hunters would resolve the matter but it was too late, as soon as they started paying bounty hunters their tokens, they too started dumping cus everyone was angry already, that was how that project died till today.