Honestly I am more concerned about the way you “earn” your gift than the nature of the gift itself.
It’s basically “group or gtfo” and this has made a lot of people say goodbye to the game during the years.
One month ago I picked up my fresh 60 warrior because I will probably use it as my first char in DF and wanted to raise its ilvl a bit. In one month of 101% chill I “finished” ZM and all I can do now to improve my ilvl at turtle speed is open chests to find cyphers to improve my cypher level and get slightly better gear from ZM dailies. The end.
I stopped playing when I was done with this with my enha shaman 7-8 months ago and NOTHING has changed power progression side for solo players in the meantime.
I guess DF will as bad as SL with this, since there have been ZERO blue posts about open world gear progress at the moment, will finish the story and then quit + resub at any major patch to just continue the story.
So much potential wasted.
Luckily enough D4 is not so far.