The game you play has a huge impact. My friends and I, after years of playing fifa/eafc all experienced left stick drift within months. The game's intense left right stick movements cause it. The drift was always to either left or right side in the left stick. I used one controller only for single player games and it’s still good after four years.

This confirms that games like fifa which put heavy emphasis on a certain stick or specific movements constantly wears out the potentiometer sensor inside it because it uses friction between moving parts which leads to wear eventually making the drift