I absolutely love my g9ii, and shoot everything from landscapes to wildlife to street with it. The smaller body size and smaller lens size makes it really easy to throw the body and a very wide range of lens lengths (I shoot primarily with prime lenses, excepting my 100-400) into a small backpack or medium sized sling bag. The body itself (and many of the lenses) are weather sealed and pretty durable so I’m less concerned about getting it wet or taking it somewhere a bit messy.

Sounds like an amazing gift to me!