Gift has been used as a verb maybe as long as it has been used as a noun. If you...

gumby · on Sept 15, 2020

I didn’t say it might not be well attested, I said its use is odious. https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/12/gi...

And anyway its Germanic root now means “poison”.

umanwizard · on Sept 15, 2020

That article is hundreds of words to say “I subjectively dislike the word ‘gifting’, on aesthetic grounds”.

What’s the big deal? All words are, ultimately, made up.