faucets started as a cool little idea to "give away" bitcoin and get more people involved. it was for free and a large amount not dust. there were faucets giving away 3 bitcoin at a point!!! now they are all used for money making both by their owners and the users!

and for years they do not pay you directly, they use a third party (like a bowl to gather the drops) and nothing is stopping them from paying their users 0.1 satoshi 0.00001 satoshi and so on which will solve the price issue and the users will have to accumulate 100,000 satoshi to be able to withdraw!