The “Absolute” injector augmentor tosses the original concept sold to players during the “summer of rage:” that skill injectors and their diminishing returns were intended to be a new way for new players to catch up to older ones. But with this, injectors allow older players to cement their skillpoint supremacy.
CCP, you didn’t need to go to this extreme to encourage logins. The rest of the holiday gifts excluding skillpoints are all fun things.
Even the “Arms Race” ship give-away event was not too terrible, the glut of battleships encouraged some Raven fleets to explode gloriously in nullsec, and didn’t take too long to wash out of the system. It definitely encouraged my logins 
The faction standings booster is a great idea: combined with the faction ammo sampler crate, that would have been an excellent alternative gift to encourage 13 days of logins.