Recently, a bunch of yield aggregators are floating around with APY claims, talking as if it's easy money.

Honestly, you're not buying "yield," you're stacking a series of contracts together, and just trusting their routing, permissions, oracles, and those counterparty pools won't cause any surprises.
APY looks tempting, but what really eats into your profits are slippage, fees, and passive bag-holders, and only when settling do you realize you're working for someone else's "strategy."

Airdrop season is the same. Task platforms are cracking down more and more on anti-witchcraft measures, and the points system is forcing yield farmers to act like clocking in at work...
As a result, everyone is more willing to put their money into complex strategies to boost "activity" just for those points.
Anyway, now when I see "auto-compound" or "one-click optimization," I first check permissions and exit routes—whether I can withdraw anytime, and if I do, whether I'll get liquidated—these are much more important than that APY number.