The way it typically works is you go out aiming for a specific lifetime in button presses and study the ones that come back from QA after dying around that mark.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel?useskin=vector#...

You need to be studying the button presses on the controllers that don't come back.

I wouldn't mind it so much if the controllers were a third of the price they currently charge, although getting a new controller all the time still means a lot of unnecessary trash and more of my time spent cracking open each replacement to pull out the microphones.

Walmart sells controllers with a $4 3 year warranty that they claim covers everything. I’m going that route this time and will see what happens in 12 months when it breaks.