Well something i learned being a faucet claimer is big rewards dont last,most faucets working that way just disappear,its better small ammounts and stable all days instead claim for 1 week and no balance or closed.
Most of them don't last for much time, so we need to enjoy it while we can.
But you can see this list: gameofbitcoins.com only high paying faucets, i like to use it, sometimes faucets are empty because they refill very low amounts to prevent hackers and bots.
For me, faucets are junks since they are only paying a very small amount of satoshis. It is not profitable for me.
I think if you really want to earn a lot of satoshi, you also need a lot of referrals. In this way, you can possibly earn 0.05 per month if you have thousands of referrals.
Some of them pay 1000-2000 satoshi, it's good, just need to find the right list like that one i paste above. You can earn some bucks relatively fast.
But I agree with you, to make a big profit only with a lot of referrals, very hard anyway.