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As pointed out, the irony is that it's a damn great stick that lasts forever...except that it grinds itself down into nothing. As long as your plastic parts hold up, as long as you lubricate them, as long as you replace them every so often, the thing is a precise instrument and has solid function. Compare this to the alps sticks being used in switch/ps4/xbone/etc. that are having drifting problems everywhere, because they thought using a part rated for only 1-2 million reads was a good idea (ifixit did a study on this and found that in an action-oriented game, a stick might hold up at that lifespan rating for only about 417 hours of play). The N64 sticks may destroy themselves, but they're easy to repair yourself, whereas the alps just have to be bought and re-bought (and fuck you if you have it happen to a PS5 controller, those shitsticks are absurd to replace).

I'll maintain that it could have used a rubber tip as it would have saved me a blister when I was a kid trying to win at Paddle Battle. That's a minor complaint overall though, you can add it after the fact if you really need it, and not having the rubber means replacements are cheaper to machine and to buy.

My last thought on the subject is that I'm still waiting on steelsticks to be available regularly, maybe sometime next century. Pic related.