Yes, it's very cost-effective for them to build in a defect that means they have to keep offering free suppo🐼rt and replacements, as well as paying for more customer support personnel and repair centers, not to mention the damage to their reputation. Do any research at all on Nintendo's history when it comes to supporting their products and you'd see what you posted is completely nonsensical.

Despite what the OP put, this doesn't look like joycon drift. The indicator is stable and not drifting at all, it's just not reading all the way to the right, which is more likely to be a defective stick sensor. Joycon drift is ༺caused by the bottom of the stick cutting grooves over time in the weaker material that it rubs along as it is used. This isn't to say these new controllers aren't prone to it, but this example isn't proof of anything.

That is completely false. An EULA has nothing to do with hard drive or operating system access. Those are two completely different things. And no, there hasn't "always been an agreement" for buying or playing video games. There was never any need to agree to something before playing any NES game, and you actually owned the cartridge and the code on it by buying it. Even once consoles starting including hard drives, you didn't have to agree to an EULA to install and play the games. EULAs arose out of games which needed dedicated online access to servers to run, and originally were there to cover the server hosts against thinks like being hacked, DDOS'ed or held responsible for illegal or harmful content shared by other users. Then they realized they could force users to agree to anything they wanted to and starte𒁏d the practice of no longer selling you a game, but a "one-time, non-transferrable license" that they can alter, restrict or revoke on a whim. People need to stop putting up with this nonsense.