If you don't want to participate in bug bounties, don't participate in them. It's not like it's hard out there in 2019 for application pentesters. This is a "world's tiniest violin" argument.
It's still interesting to hear comments like in the GP for an unknowing person like me.
Your comment is interesting as well, if only for the defensive reaction without addressing the "being scummy" claim. I'm basically hearing, yeah it's scummy, now get off my lawn.
