Plenty of vintage tube-fed Savage and Stevens rimfire's out there if you really want one. I don't see why Savage would ever go backwards and start offering a model with one again. The only benefit that the tubular magazine offers is the ability to easily shoot short, long and long rifle rounds, but I can't even remember the last time I saw a box of shorts or longs for sale anywhere so it's kind of a mute point. Yes they're out there if you look hard enough, but the vast majority - your average plinker 22 users - aren't going to bother looking for it, they're just going to buy the bulk boxes of 22LR at Wally World. Investing the time and money to develop such a gun to cater to what would amount to maybe 3% of their overall rimfire market wouldn't be considered a productive or worthwhile use of their resources.