After spending a rather stupid amount of money on toys such as laser pens, electronic toys, wands, feathers, fishing line things, balls, puzzles my cat yearns for only one toy.... A stick.
The end that is supposed to be used is clearly not interesting enough no the HANDLE is what she wants to play with. Something about a plastic stick being scrapped across carpet sets all her neurons off.
Only other things she likes is carboard boxes and brown paper to shred and occasionally felt balls being rolled down the stairs.
Her other demands are being let into the conservatory and demanding i watch her poo.
I guess its easy to overthink a cats mind since they don't care if you spend hundreds in toys they gonna play with the stupidest items. Made the same mistake with food spending loads on different fancy wet foods to find out she just wanted to eat kibble.
yay! my cats love sticks too. may i suggest also gifting your cat a simple flat sheet? You can drape one across furniture so that it hangs down, with only an inch or two of open space on the bottom. in my experience cats love to play from underneath there, because they like being sneaky and ambushing. if you have sturdy furniture you can also tie the sheet between two of them, creating a low curtain wall, that they love to play in and jump over. just be careful about where you tie the curtain, make sure it wont tip the furniture over if they fall on it. you could just loosely drape stuff so it avoids that risk altogether