I'm curious about the stick drift thing.
I have 3 controllers, two of which I've had since maybe 6 months after the PS5 was released since that's about how long it took me to get one.
Both controllers have a few hundred hours on them, neither have stick drift. The third one doesn't have nearly the amount of hours on it since my kid spilled juice on it and I procrastinated for a few months to take it apart and clean it lol so I'm not considering that one.
Is it really that bad or did I just get lucky? These things are almost 4 years old and still work perfectly fine.
Having lived there for almost 10 years, most of it as a "local", they also have a very real problem of foreigners coming there and destroying apartments or racking up debt and just leaving.
There's more going on obviously, like the xenophobia you mention, and just straight up racism, and probably other things. So it's a little more than just a cultural problem but that is a decent chunk of it.