I'm with you on this one, if I were part of the team I would have closed the faucet and just distribute the coins through airdrop. These people who are bashing everywhere just triggers me and reading their posts stresses the heck out of me, luckily the devs are very mature and professional and they know how to handle these bashers/complainers very well.
Hope they won't do that, because airdropping would just make rich get richer and poor get poorer. Current faucet system is great, because it keeps attention in raiblocks for a long & sustained period of time. This is exactly what every blockchain startup should have done or be doing right now.