I think many of the smaller shops around the country also have an online shop!?
There is more than Amazon, B&H or Adorama where you can shop online.
I ordered mine 2 days prior to the official release date. The small retailer is aprox 200km away from me, but he has an online shop too.
It arrived on saturday.
As for anything with a balance between the two dimensions, if you pull one direction you will affect the other dimension. In other words, making a small lens comes at a compromise and the amount of compromise is determined by the amount of “ pulling”.
You know this is another form
You can have a lens that is Cheap, Small, Good ( and I will add light efficient too), but you can only pick two characteristics simultaneously. Anything else is wishful thinking and I don’t do that.