People have been saying that for years. They've been wrong every year. This year is going to be no different. I don't think you understand how the faucet industry works... And I hate to say this, but neither do more than half of the admins that decide they want their own faucets. They just think there is money to be made by simply operating a faucet and making revenue from the ads.
Nope. So much planning and budgeting needs to go into launching faucets, and admins rarely take the time to do this. Most of the new faucets shut down before they're even able to get their first revenue payment.
THAT'S the problem. It's all the little sites out there that fuck it up for the bigger ones. The little ones that come and go and create "scams" of sites that stop paying after a mere couple of weeks.
It's the little sites that fuck up the AdSense for the big sites. The littles ones get banned from Google's AdSense so frequently, that occasionally, some big faucets feel the wrath of the banhammer, as well.
But as you stated, about faucets disappearing this year? Nah. I'm willing to wager 0.1BTC that they won't. Want to take me up on my offer?