Why is the token that Generous Gift makes a green elephant instead of a white elephant?

It’s a color shifted card (same card, new color), so it kept the rules text the same.

"Untapping lands isn’t a white ability." No? That feels like something that White should be able to do: "I countered your spell, but at least you get your mana back." Similar to Generous Gift giving the opponent something for killing their creature. Makes it feel different from a blue counterspell.

White has to give it something that it does. White makes token creatures, so granting a creature token is in pie for white.

"White can’t pinpoint destroy lands." Is Generous Gift a bend/break?

It’s a bend.

I remember seeing the other day that white specialized in mass removal. I would like to offer a counter argument leading to what I believe the color pie is saying. So part of whites color pie is having massive amounts of creatures and generally not focusing on one single creature. Well because white doesn't like individualism then single targeted removal with a slight downside would work right? Flavor wise anyway. Which is why path to exile, swords to plow share and generous gift all actually fit white. White likes tokens so the elephant token is more fitting. White does life gain so that is fitting. White also does catch up stuff so path to exile works.
I guess my question is, with these points how is white not the single best single creature removal?

Cause black really, really enjoys killing things. Gamewise, you don’t want the same color to be best at both spot removal and mass removal.

Could Beast Within/Generous Gift be in blue? It technically fills blue's ability to destroy something and give the controller a creature in place of it

Blue can transform creatures into other creatures.

"No, white doesn’t get “destroy target land”." White got a colorshifted Beast Within in Modern Horizons, Generous Gift, which is single-target land destruction.

That was a bend for that very reason. It was a color-shifter card that very rarely gets used for land destruction, so the Council of Colors allowed the bend for that particular card.

You recently said that elephants appear more in green than white, so I did some checking. According to Scryfall, there are 24 Green Elephants, 28 White Elephants, and 2 that are both green and white. Of the white Elephants, two are silver bordered, and 6 aren't Loxodons. There are also 10 green cards that make Elephant tokens, Generous Gift being the only white card to make one.

I was talking about Elephant tokens. There are twelve cards that make Elephant tokens, all of which are green Elephants. Ten of the cards are green, one is blue and one is Generous Gift, a white card.

Hi! What you mean by " 'Destroy target permanent' isn’t monowhite." is that other colors can do it without a disadvantage, right? Monowhite can do it, but needs some compensation, as in Generous Gift. Did I understand correctly? Thanks for your time

We do not print “Destroy target permanent” as the only three words of rules text on a monowhite card.

Hi Mark, you recently said that blue can destroy creatures through transforming them, so why isn’t Generous Gift a blue card?

Blue’s part of the pie lets it turn a creature into another creature. That’s not what Generous Gift does.

Earlier you said if there's a choice between two similar cards, you choose the one that's in color pie. So why does the Naya Populate deck have Beast Within instead of Generous Gift? They're identical cards, both in-color for the deck, and the later was specifically made because the former was out of pie.

I said we “usually”. There are exceptions.