I've earned over $600 worth of BAT from using Brave in the past 18 months. Can keep it or pay content creators with it, definitely not a scam.
There’s over a million web creators accepting bat just from brave [1] and while that’s not everyone or even a big percentage it’s not “few web creators.” If you don’t want to give to web creators you’re free to cash out and donate cash to charities. So that’s a plus that’s not possible with other browsers.
Note, I don’t use the crypto feature in brave, I’m just annoyed by people spreading FUD about stuff.
[0] https://www.coinbase.com/price/basic-attention-token [1] https://batgrowth.com/