It depends on your targets, IME. Huge companies? Yep, you'll get a "thanks for telling us" from a bigger bug bounty program and then not hear anything for weeks to months.
For small- and mid-sized companies that do bug bounties (of which there seem to be fewer and fewer these days as a percentage) you can definitely wind up submitting directly to the right people and get really quick response times.
For small- and mid-sized companies that do bug bounties (of which there seem to be fewer and fewer these days as a percentage) you can definitely wind up submitting directly to the right people and get really quick response times.