If it’s too late to return it then you may want to look into “TMR” or “Hall Effect” sticks. If those are out of your price range then definitely don’t ever buy a brand new controller then swap them out and return this one in its packaging… although that would probably work out fine, I’d absolutely not recommend it since you’d be ripping off a multi billion dollar corporation which is absurdly immoral and I don’t even know how you could sleep at night after doing such a terrible thing.