You may also have an intermittent disconnect in your cable. The jostling of disconnecting and reconnecting the new pedal may have temporarily resolved the disconnect, but it will always come back.
And I say that as someone who still uses the secondary switch I bought as part of their Kickstarter campaign.
That said, though, if you are halfway handy with a soldering iron, replacing a switch is not that hard. Might be worth getting a couple of new, high-quality switches and trying your hand at becoming an “electronics hobbyist.”
Good luck – let us know what happens.
Joe