Like other people have said, they have quite honestly never been hard to get if you're actually willing to put forth any effort above the bare minimum of randomly checking Amazon once every two or three weeks and then pouting about it. I managed to buy four in the first month and a half they were available (for me, my brother, my girlfriend, and my girlfriend's sister) just by checking sites when Wario tweeted them.
Yes, it sucks that you can't go into a store and buy one, but the reality is that demand still outstrips supply, and supply is going to continue to be constrained, so that isn't likely to change any time soon. They sold slightly more PS5s than PS4s in each console's first year, and slightly less PS5s than PS4s in each's second year, so the narrative that 'there aren't even any out there' or whatever is also just completely bunk. You can get one if you actually try.
Oddly enough, it's the forums I enjoy the most about Giant Bomb anymore, and I was one of the loudest voices during the transition from the white to black background that the forums had been irreparably harmed by the change.
I know that this sentence is tongue-in-cheek, but the site has had a dark theme since its inception; they didn't add the white theme until a few redesigns in.
I don't have any recommendations that other people haven't already mentioned, but it's worth noting that there's currently a Roguelike/Roguelite sale going on on Steam, so many of the games mentioned here are currently discounted.
The biggest thing is finding the tradeoffs you're willing to make. Nobody has as much time in the day as they wish they did, but almost everybody can make time for something if they really want to. It's the classical optimization triangle problem; you can get enough sleep, take care of social responsibilities, practice your hobbies, etc., but you can't do them all. If you stay up an hour later, or you don't go to every dinner/bar/party you get invited to, or you meal prep in bulk one day so that you can spend 5m reheating through the week instead of spending 30m cooking every day, or whatever else, you can squeeze out some time that you may not have felt that you had. I'm not saying that all or any of these apply to you, but it's just something to think about as it applies to the things in your own life that you feel like are eating your time.
I bought a new guitar a month or two ago after wanting to learn for years but never willing to commit past dabbling with an old one at my dad's house a handful of times a decade ago. This can be hard to apply to some of your hobbies (like golf or fishing), but the biggest thing that's helped me stick with it so far is not thinking of it like a big obligation ('I need to practice for at least an hour every day' or whatever). It can be hard for people older than college to block out a 30-60m chunk of their day, but it gets easier if you 'trick' yourself. I pick up the guitar and say I'm going to commit to five minutes of playing, and most days by the time I look up it's been 15 or 20 or 45 minutes. Again, hard to apply to several of your hobbies, but you might be able to use the thought process on something like games, reading, or programming.
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