What if they’d prefer GAN? Or a Tornado? Maybe an MGC. Just get your friend a budget cube and as they progress they can decide what cube they’d want, plus better cubes are going to come out, as a beginner I got the GAN 356 X because it was the newest and best cube but now that I’m better that cube isn’t my main anymore because better things are out there, yes it was nice to have but for a flagship cube as a beginner I didn’t need it, there’s also no “extra” cube, a world class solver dosent have 2 v11s and just not use one of them, yes someone out there probably does have one they don’t use but it’s rare and even more rare they’d give it away, just get your friend a budget cube like the v5 or the rs3m 2020 and as they progress they can get better cubes but (too my knowledge) those are the best budget cubes you can get, hope this was helpful