The thing is the faucet at least here was always low.   There is pictures of a faucet from the days at the start of Bitcoin where it gave out 10 BTC sometimes but the big thing to remember is there no monetary value only the idea of it as a token, the value all came later.   This whole thing is almost forgotten now as new people outnumber greatly the original experimenters but faucet wise it was always a lose amount.

I can only remember when it was maybe 300 sats but that was still a tiny fraction back then and nobody cared.   I referred a few people I knew, they lost interest after a dozen uses of the faucet as it takes alot of patience.   It does also scale on use etc.    I was very lucky to get some comp use of a faucet in ETH in its early days so I guess I kind can glimse how i t was in BTC too.