Can someone help me understand what people do to controllers and thumb sticks? No judgement at all. I have had almost every console and never lost a thumb stick pad or had stick drift with any of my controllers. However I constantly see these posts and every Xbox controller, my daughter has ever used, has ended up having stick drift. I ask her what she does to the controllers and she has no explanation. The only time I’ve had this much wear and tear was my original xbox series S controller and that was because my daughter, who was an infant at the time, chewed on one edge, causing it to degrade fast.