The developer should do a poll to see the kind of numbers of people who are aware of this airdrop....I bet you it's less than 1000.
The ANN is only 12 days old and you have already found the way to this thread! There is more than a month, maybe two, left for everybody and his dog to learn about Byteball! This thread is not the only marketing effort, there are several tweets already, also threads in other crypto forums, and I know about some bloggers, who will release something in the next days.
So nothing to worry about, Byteball will be well-known when the initial distribution happens.
Sounds a bit like Cryptkeeper wants to keep all the crypto for himself.
The strength as the developer has said is in the widely held distribution. At this point it's I bet known about by a few hundred people at best, alts is a very small world compared to Bitcoin and also there are so many projects these days even a dedicated alt coin investor can easily miss this free offer. If the distribution ends up in less than 1000 wallets this coin is DOA. What's a few more weeks in the grand scheme of things?
We all benefit from network effects when the distribution is as wide as possible. Your suggestion heard, but at this time it is just too early to change plans.