Yeah, it kind of makes sense if magic is rare, difficult to obtain, but not entirely foreign. Basically a luxury good.
To use an example luxury good, we all know what a private jet is. We couldn’t build one or buy one, but we know there are people who can. It’d be cool to be in one but not some unimaginable experience.
I prefer the Vibes-Based Magic SystemTM, where you grip it rip it and and tolerate
a littleok a decent amount of variance in order to speed things along and avoid anything resembling powegaming.