Well, when i was new in bitcoin field, than always i spend my time to search the free bitcoin sites. But i learn from my experience nothing any sites here where we earn free bitcoin, except faucets but they pay very low and in this way, we can't earn 1 bitcoin, except gambling is only way where we earn fast but on the risk. So i choose different ways like hold the bitcoin and also i try to do altcoin trading.
We cant earn free bitcoins because even in faucet we have to spare some time to click on the site and if you think its worth it to spend long hours just to get faucet coins then its up to them to decide .
Anyways your style on doing altcoin trading is much better than other people who just go to faucet just to get bitcoin perhaps they dont know where to get it first thats why faucet is there main source.