Why wouldn't it help? Even smaller towns have cafés now where they can buy one so that's honestly what I'd do as well. And if they have an espresso machine at home it's almost certain that they'd prefer those to drinking instant coffee.

So yeah, seconding the aeropress. V60 is a bit more tricky to make but also cool, ofc. There's ofc also the middle ground which is the clever dripper/hario switch.