moskidoodle -“we only get chanukah presents cause we copied X-ms presents.”
Perhaps that’s the reason of the Freye, not by the Frumme. I think it started when Yidden didn’t want to just give $ anymore. Kids wanted something that they could use practically. Once upon a time, you gave $ because the only thing a kid could get was a candy in the store. With the advent of thousands of different toys people were able to just buy a present that they could afford and that the kid would want. Why do you think Toys R’ Us are full of people Chol Hamoyed Pesach buying the kids Afikomen presents? This isn’t copying Goyim.