Hating the new mog station restrictions.

[Arzalis]

This is probably where I'm gonna stake my money on being the cause. It makes sense.

This lead to the change for the friendslist thing probably, but nothing to do with not being able to gift certain items at all.

SE's stated reason for blocking items like minions, emotes, etc. is because they are one time use. They just don't care enough to make a way to detect if someone already has an item or not and prevent you from buying it for them.

Literally that simple. SE taking the easiest approach instead of developing a proper solution. Which is true for most problems in this game.