"...because it would kill people trying to build their bags here."

The kind of people who would usually be "building their bags" from free giveaway tokens are not the kind of people who actually fill bags. They're dumpers. They are not much use when we're talking about a serious lack of investment and staking.

And if they're the kind of people who are simply using the social interfaces to fill bags, then they can just as easily or more easily do that in communities on layer two that have their own tokens. And if they truly want HIVE bags, then they can use those layer two tokens to purchase them and HIVE can still be acquired with no out-of-pocket cost to them.