This has been and is being discussed. There are issues with allowing the tokens to be transferable but there are also obvious benefits.
There is a lot of talk about building better ways to onboard right now as we no longer have the Steemit Faucet to provide this feature.
I am immediately struck that we do have the RC's and tokens for that faucet, just through the HPS rather than Stinc. Chin-rubbingly interesting...