

Some of the more striking museum displays of the Holocaust are of piles of children’s shoes, pictures 8 and 14 on this article show some of the scale of these exhibits, although the actual display in person is much larger than the little piece you can see in 14.
You’ve probably tried this but in case you haven’t: try putting isopropyl alcohol in the gaps around the bumpers, it can clean the contacts and make the bumpers work again.
But yeah I’ve also has a ton of first party xbox controllers fail on me, although usually its the left stick or right trigger (I mostly play rocket league which abuses both) and was mostly the xbox one controllers so I’ve switched to more durable 3rd party controllers.