I don't understand why you people think that you can merely gain crypto without doing anything. Even miners are doing hard work to get their coins.
It is probably remnants from the old days when some early adopters shared bitcoin for free to spread the word. It started with faucets and eventually evolved into various learn-to-earn crypto programs.
As I see it, the only thing you can do to get more crypto is to work for it. The reason the coin is worth anything is because of the work that was put into it.
Cryptocurrency works just like real-world fiat currency. You work for it, you buy it with your labor, you trade it for other goods and services, and so forth. You can only get more of it by earning more of it.
Well, free stuff like faucets has always been things with low value in the real world.
For example, when Bitcoin faucets were a thing, you couldn't really do much with Bitcoin in terms of buying things. Laszlo had to wait a few days to get his pizzas for 10k BTC... so giving away Bitcoin made sense.
It's the same these days. There are a few things that will give you a few sats for free. Which right now is almost nothing, just cents, but it allows you to play around with the lightning network for example.
In the future the potential of the few satoshis you earn today through micro earnings is unimaginable. Of course it's not so good like years ago, because currently offers are really scarce, less profitable, not simplified and even confusing. But about 6 or 7 years ago it was possible to earn 0,40$ daily (0,001
BTC), just by doing one faucet run, ignoring the low paying ones which can be claimed more frequently and using only faucets which paid every 3, 6, 8, 12, 24 hours (consequently the rewards were better). The whole process didn't take more than an hour.
Moreover, sometimes faucets with big rewards were launched and lasted for few days, until the manager concluded rewards should be calibrated. So it was like a profitable beta test for users during the initial stage of the faucet.
Now the best part: those 0,40$ daily held until the last ATH, would represent a
daily income of 69$ only by using faucets!