Gyms: No! Prestiging suck hard. Now gyms are boring, but with some effort, all can get their coins. In Blissey towers, i cant get often single 10 coins for days. Now im lvl 40 and have heavy Mystic dominant area, so its easy for us to make 10-20 Blissey towers and earning coins. But it could absolutely block newer red and yellow players here. I remember that hard times i had on their lvls, and wont be an asshole for them.
Gifts: Yes for random eggs, but still Alolan should have highest chance to earn. Name tag is no needed imho. And double trade im against and simply Niantic wont make it like you wrote.