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I do believe there are replacement sticks available nowadays that should mostly eliminate drift.
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Yeah, I found them. They're made by a company called Gulikit. I know the joycons are faulty little things, but I will hand it to nintendo that they're the easiest controllers to work on currently. No soldering needed to replace the sticks.
I did that exact replacement. One of the Hall replacements began drifting as well.
I've never had drift on any other system. Weird.
Yeah, they're not perfect as drop-in replacements.
They fix the problem of the joystick inputs appearing to hitch when at the edges of the gate, but they have way worse variance in readings when in the default position.
Anecdotally, I found Nintendo's on-device calibration settings to suck. They don't give enough control over deadzone and range parameters to actually make up for using a different sensor type. When repairing people's joycons, I ended up using PC software to overwrite the joycon factory calibrations to make things actually behave...
Yeah I replaced mine with Gulikit sticks after they started drifting while playing BotW. They were surprisingly easy to service, no soldering or special tools required.
Thanks for the tip in your edit. I had 4 pairs of official joycons drift, I eventually just bought a pair of 3rd party ones to keep mounted on it and those have been working fine for over 3 years now. I still have the official joycons, actually had 2 of them serviced and repaired by Nintendo after that class action lawsuit (Nintendo said they'd repair any drifting joycon for free regardless if they're out of warranty).
I have had numerous sets start to drift, except the set that came with my Diablo special edition switch. I think those are 6 or 7 years old now. It is so odd those are fine but none of my others are.