I don't agree with you. There was time when I was able to get more than my monthly wage just from faucets, I can't call it as bad thing. And about historical context - you forget how many people got introduce to Bitcoin and crypto world exactly through faucets.
No one's doubting that values may rise in future, though obviously it's a finite number that's going to become vastly more sluggish, but instead of spending ten hours to make a few bucks you can make more selling one old game or broken phone on Ebay and putting that into buying BTC.
You could've spent ten hours mowing lawns
and sold a knackered phone and wound up with 10x more BTC for the same amount of time expended and probably less grind. The same has applied at any point.