Despite other arguments, even taking at face value that gift as a verb was popularized in the 1990's, why are you fighthing about language which at the worst, h

Despite other arguments, even taking at face value that gift as a verb was popularized in the 1990's, why are you fighthing about language which at the worst, has been in common parlance for nearly 30 years, and if we take other sources, even longer?