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Back when I used to play on the switch every day for several hours, I never had any issue at all with drifting. Several years later as I played less often, it started happening. Then when I didn't play for nearly a year, once I tried it again all of my joycons were unusable.
In the early years if was really confusing to me why everybody complained about it so much and I never had any issue, but it eventually caught up with me too. I just don't know if my anecdote is a coincidence or if it really is more likely to drift when you don't use it as much.
I think there's something to the sitting idle angle. My launch joycons started getting drift 4-5 years ago. I did the usual clean out, then cut some plastic to put more pressure on the stick back plate and they were surprisingly fine. Two years ago I picked up an OLED, and my primary switch got very little handheld use after that.
Fast forward to a few weeks ago, when I grabbed my launch switch to upgrade the firmware and run some tests. The sticks were basically unusable. I have a couple sets of Hall effect sticks laying around, I guess now is as good a time as any to put them to use.