Yeah, I’ll definitely look again at .357 (etc.) carbine rifles. When I was looking a while back (sort of an offshoot of that 9mm target practice ammo sale), neither of the local vendors I’d usually buy from had anything in store or in stock on their website.
That is one of the considerations: Availability of ammunition. 9mm is almost as ubiquitous as 22lr.
I have heard it posted on these kinds of threads multiple times. Choose your ammo first, then buy a rifle and a handgun in that same ammo.