And I think that your assertions of how other people should feel and act is terribly ... not cool.
I made exactly zero assertions about how people should feel. I said that the world would not fall apart. A few incensed gamers are not "the world". You, personaly, are free to fall apart over this.
I went ahead and looked in my area, by the way. Unsurprisingly, it is not only not available locally, it's not available in the three closest major metro areas.
That sounds like something to take up with your library. Have you tried to request they get a copy? Have you considered donating one? It isnt' like they can read your mind to know you want a thing that nobody has likely ever asked for before now.
But hey- why should I matter to you, right? Isn't that kind of the issue- if you've never wanted to read it, why do you care if someone else can't?
Looks like the goalposts are moving. I was talking about
maintaining history. Maintaining history is maintaining access of to the information for study as a cultural artifact, to be able to look at it as a product of its time for scholarly understanding. I am ot a historian, and do not need a historian's access, but I recognize that such should exist. But, you don't need a copy in every town for that.
You seem to instead be talking about
maintaining mass access. This is an entirely different thing, and
does not fit under the rubric of "Don't erase history!". So you dont get to push the "lost history" button on this one, sorry.
It remains that WotC is not not under any onus to maintain mass access to their works in perpetuity - no publisher is. Nor is maintaining historical archives for public access a thing they are obligated to do. It is, quite simply, not their job.
Maybe you should take up with GAMA, or maybe the GenCon organization, or PAX, that the world really needs a RPG Digital Lending Library, to maintain access to old, out of print works, and enhance access (and thus sales) to smaller, more independent works. Feel free to take the idea to them - even present it as your own - if you feel that strongly about the matter.