The Pi foundation believes supply will steadily improve as this year progresses & will be back to ”you can buy any Pi you want today” by the end of the year.
It’s not /great/, but given the supply chaos of the last few years it is what it is.
Last I heard they were making 7M a year, with very few reserved for end users. To improve the situation they promised 100k reserved for end users. Seems much like the GPU fiasco where a company reserves all their product, leaving none for end users, and the market collapses (worst GPU sales in 20 hears).
Even in its height of "unobtainable" I was able to get one without having to try too hard and I was being picky about the configuration I wanted. I did have to buy from a German site but it was obtainable.
I managed to get one via a rpilocator.com alert (used the rss feed to send myself an email alert) within about 2-3 weeks of setting it up. It's not perfect but it worked and I managed to get an 8GB Pi 4.
the height of unobtainable was just a couple of weeks ago, and it lasted for almost a year in which rpilocator was only showing a few shops in the world selling a few dozen pis in a different form factor you are looking for at a time.
It’s not /great/, but given the supply chaos of the last few years it is what it is.