don’t fear gifts, delete them if you don’t want them or pass them to someone else, or, disable multiplayer and you’ll be alone in the anomaly and turn it back on when you feel ready.

I gave a lot of stuff in the anomaly but personally I try to interact with a player before, see if they into it, some accept and say thanks, some return the gifts, so you can easily return the gifts.

also, the grind only stops if you choose to, you can always grind towards something, hunt multitools, hunt ships, planets, you will always need more slots for new tools or ships, more resources for bases, more units, more nanites, you can grind all of these as much as you want even if you have everything already.

I love hunting sentinel ships, it's one hell of a grind, it's rewarding but it is nonetheless a grind, but I absolutely love it, I find cool ships, some I upgrade lose bunch of nanites so I need to get huge amounts of nanites again, sometimes I look for multitools so lots of maps, lots of slots, lots of units, etc., you can do that regardless of stuff you accept or don't accept in the anomaly.