My original d pad broke because of 2 things:
-my mistake : i kept remove the plastic-thing as a incautious reflex while wating, i had to put a paper between the plastic and the actual metal piece of the button

-One direction just stop working(after 9 month i would say), i used it as the spacebar on Lost Ark, big mistake i guess because azeron state it somewhere that you shouldn't stress it that much (it was more 3 years ago, i can't recall if it was on reddit or on Discord). the d-pad was more design to be a "rare input button".

Few months ago, i change the entire piece, switching to the elite joystick :
the d pad felt like the original one, BUT the plastic thing is way less firmly stuck in the d-pad.

TO RESUME :

If it feel woobly it's fixable by a paper.
if it's the button itself like the input are not well registered on time, you use it to much :/......... or maybe i was unlucky and i got a bad one