I've had my Switch since July 2017. Never had any drift problems until playing Overcooked in Dec 2019. It only really seemed to happen on Overcooked for some reason though (weird). But then recently, starting in April, it started happening regularly on any game and is extremely annoying.
A couple days ago I lifted up the little skirt under the stick and sprayed contact cleaner in there. Seems to have pretty much solved the problem. Haven't had any drift in the several hours I've played since then. Seems like this is a good and easy solution. I expect I will have to do this on occasion to keep the drift away but its a cheap, quick, easy solution that doesn't have me sending my joy con away for a month and not being able to play my Switch. Seems like the problem is likely dust/dirt getting in under the stick skirt after a bunch of use, I guess if you're not moving the stick around a lot it is less likely to happen which is why it mostly happens with the left joy con.
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