Cameras make great gifts but they often get thrown into drawers(or even stay in the gift box) for much longer than nature intended. If your gift camera or splurge model does not see the light of day inside the first month you own it, you got the wrong camera. There may be nothing wrong with the camera, it just wasn’t designed with your optimum usability profile in mind.
I watched documentaries where historians and rambling photographers took thousands of pictures yet only a tiny few, a handful were selected for the golden ring of publication. But it was only after I got a really great camera, and got comfortable using it, that I realized from a microstock point of view the world of Nature photography was all mine.