Is there any benefit to removing the X-Mas tree from my land?

X-Mas trees are back again this year, and once again you can cut them down for a small resource profit. (It appears to be 75k payout for 25k invested = 50k profit, just like last year)

However - now X-Mas trees also spawn presents! If you remove the tree, you lose the chance to get presents from it. The presents I've seen so far only give 5k elixir a pop.

Thus it may be more profitable in the short-term to leave these trees alone, at least until they stop dropping presents!

I ended up removing it as I am almost certain it provides no defensive traits to my base. Opposing troops just walked right past it.

It took 30 seconds to remove and I was rewarded with 75,000 Gold. A 50k profit in 30 seconds makes it well worth it to remove it from the land.