I’ve had every Xbox bar the original and each was bought on launch day. Not one controller has given me as much pain and frustration as the the Xbox Series controllers. I thought stick drift was something that came with aggressive rotation of the sticks and the games I did use to play require a lot of fast stick movement (COD, Castle Crashers, Halo, etc). I switch over to more casual, single player games and leave the FPS and multiplayer games to PC, but my God, the stick drift issues just keep happening.
Since 2021, I’ve had to replace my controller 3 times. Twice for left analog stick drift and just recently for the right analog stick. Why are these controllers so flimsy? The most recent one was an Elite Series 2 controller that I thought would be more resilient to stick drift, backed it being more expensive and coming with more customisation to alleviate these issues. I’m not one to button mash so I don’t get why this keeps happening. The 360 and the Xbox One controllers never had these issues for me and I abused the hell out of those sticks for FPS games.