Meehn, these days you can never get bitcoin for free, you will have to invest/give something to get what you need and that's it. If you think that faucets are going to help you, then you're just wasting time cause that's never going to work. The worst part of it all is the annoying ads that faucets shows these days, they show a lot of ads and they are most of the times not properly arranged and you will be finding it difficult to make a claim. Sometimes they automatically direct you to another website without your permission and that's the most annoying part of it and after all the wasting of time, you still get nothing but just penny, lol.
This was the case always, most faucets paid out from their ad revenue. Even way back when the first faucet was out, you'd just get a few penny's but now years later when the BTC price is 100 x higher those penny's aren't penny's. Of course now the sites have adjusted the amount of satoshi's given but from what I've seen they still provide the same general USD they did back then.
As for the bold text, besides back at the beginning when BTC was "worthless" and people were just sending it to send yeah you can't get money for free. Even back then sending 5 BTC was like sending a few dollars.
Basically everything is relative.
This is not a great individual attitude's to show here in this prominent universe cryptocurrency forums BTT, commenting bashing other brother in crypto initiative without never try his final product.