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They're not, but blocking all bots, also blocks others, that want to archive all that data forever, be it a private person using wget, or a service like archive.org.

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You can manually copy locally the content you may need

Why would I, it's online, I know where to find it... until it's gone from there. Also, that would meen I'd have to archive it before I actually needed it archived. And archiving would have to be done manually. And after it's gone, and the only proof of it existing is a text somewhere else saying that the solution to my problem is here -> LINK and the link is that, the data is gone. Not even on archive.org.

Have we really come to a phase of internet use, where everytime you see something, you have to manually save it, and on every post (even here or on reddit, facebook r wherever) a link is not good enough, but you have to copy-paste the whole block of text just to make it a bit future-proof?

we never left that phase dude.

Yes, whatever you see on the internet is temporary. Save it if it matters because at some point it won't exist.

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