Omg, I forgot this, when one of our girl cats was in her “toddler” years, she would go to the spring coil door stop and take her paw and boinoinoing it, over and over and over on a door nearby but just out of line of sight. If you said her name she’d stop for 30 seconds and start again. Repeat until you got up and paid attention to, petted, held, or fed her.
From experience, we tend to use the same two burners, and one particular one, the most, by far. (Front left for us) After 15 years, the plastic on the underside of the original knob got worn and loose and almost broke. We rotated the burner knobs. The oven knob is doing the same thing, but it’ll need to be replaced or repaired. Like someone else said, they aren’t usually all metal construction, there’s plastic on the inside.