I've had two of 'em that see a lot of use for about 3 years and both are still fine.

I literally got stick drift a week after release day, ever since then I've gotten stick drift on two other controllers (just on ps5) It's just a lottery and I'm fucking tired of it

Yea same I have a couple of older controllers and never once experienced any issues with them. The same can't be said for my damn Logitech mice that seem to fail every year.

I got two controllers with my PS5. Two months later they had both been replaced.

I’ve only lost one out of 4 controllers to stick drift. So 25% chance, sample size 1.

I got stick drift on my first one within 200 hours and within 150 hours of the second one. I've never had stick drift on any other controller in my life and I've owned every major platform except for the Wii U all the way back to the N64 and PSX. I was still using my launch PS4 controller until the PS4 Pro and that controller until 1 year into the PS5.