We're you around for the 6+ and 6s+? Those phones were unobtanium for months and months. The 14 Pro being unavailable for 45 days is nothing. And the 14 not selling because people saw right through apple.
I think that was still the trailing edge of the whole "lining up outside the shop at 2am". I also did this once for the first iPad release :) Which really did turn out to be a groundbreaking product release though the actual hardware itself was still quite flawed. It needed a few iterations to become mature.