So I tried this stuff last weekend, and it felt good! Also played with making sure to tilt my uphill pole a little more into a direction where the grip in my hand is pointing more down the hill, and therefore the tip lifts higher behind me after a pole plant versus being in a position to drag. It’s not a big movement, pretty subtle, but seems to achieve a lot.. Does this make sense, and is that movement of adjusting the wrist a bit to keep that angle the right approach? It felt really good and put me more forward versus that tendency to lean a tiny bit of weight back when the pole drags, kind of like a crutch. Just want to make sure how my body started to want to “fix” this wasn’t going to be bad in another way. As I said before, for some reason it’s only really the right arm where I’ll notice pole drag on occassion, the left never seems to get there.. not sure what’s happening on the right that makes it more likely to happen, perhaps I drop my shoulder or something? One day I might ski with my adjustable poles that I use for other snow stuff, to see if shortening would be beneficial as well.
Sounds like you did something good with that uphill pole. The point of all this is to get weight directed to the outside ski and to keep you centered instead of aft. Keeping the inside shoulder high and forward, and the outside shoulder low and back, works pretty well. The cues that help each skier accomplish the right amount of this "formula" are varied.
Almost everyone has a weak side that doesn't listen to orders and gets lazy. That weak side refuses to do what it's told, and it doesn't send signals to the brain to let it know what it's doing either. It chooses to be MIA most of the time. The skier's job is to bring it back online, get the brain to watch it to know what it's doing, and get it to behave when it's told to do something.
My weak side is my left. It sounds like your weak side is your right. I used to drop my left shoulder, allow my left arm to move back after pole plants, sometimes I missed planting altogether on that side, and I leaned in to the left. It's been a long hard journey bringing the left side into synch with the rest of my body.
So how do you check to see if what you are doing is working? On each turn, try lifting the tail of the inside ski a little bit. If you can't lift that ski at all, you have too much weight on it. Lift that inside shoulder/elbow/hand and try again. If you can lift the tip but not the tail, you are aft. Move that inside shoulder forward and try again. The pole dray may help with both of these, and there are other "cues" you can try too. Lots of them. This is the bread and butter of instructing. Instructors figure out all kinds of things that might work with this or that client. Bag of tricks, so to speak.
Keep in mind that your goal in all this is outside ski carries your weight, and its shovel is pressed onto the snow, never riding high. It sounds like it's working for you.