I dont really as much nowadays. If event recipes are around like the sakura ones in balloons I probably will, but for now I only really pop them if I'm standing around waiting for someone to come to my island and its floating past right next to me
The only balloons I don't really pop are the yellow ones. The others I am more likely to chase after to pop when I see them and I'm just wandering around.
Yes, they help me fund this expensive lifestyle of constant house upgrades. Though they stopped giving me bells, but more furniture is nice too! I feel like i shot down lots of them but i still dont have the 300 ballons stamp so...
Initially I did, then I didn't, but then I realized I was getting some colors on certain furniture that I didn't have and that never showed up in my Nook's Cranny, so that incentivized me to keep popping them!
Yes. I don't farm them, but I always shoot them down when I see them. Considering you can get new items and/or new colors of items, new DIYs, IGB, and sometimes good materials (it's possible to get a gold nugget), I don't know why you wouldn't.