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Pennies on one console become millions of pennies on millions of consoles. It's obviously stupid but it's all there is to it.
Which is just a footnote to Nintendo's profits. Let's not forget the difference between a 1 Million and 1 Billion is roughly 1 Billion.
You think it is important that the gain is small? For a company like Nintendo, number goes up means great! Number goes slight down, oh noes!
At scale a hall effect stick is about $0.25 more than a potentiometer version. That's about $38,000,000 if they sell as many Switch 2s as they sold Switches.
Sooooo... Nothing. That's basically a rounding error to Nintendo. Remember: That figure is over eight years.
If it means they won't have lawsuits (which cost millions on their own), fewer returns, and happier customers it most certainly would be worth losing out on ~$5 million/year.
The part you're missing isn't the cost. It's the potential sales from replacement joycons. If you're going to make a devil's advocate style, capitalist argument that's the one to make.
I don't think it's any of that, though. I think it's just management being too strict about design constraints (which I pointed out in an earlier comment).