Well at least you finally understand that having an immovable point of return is a self root. Yes you can turn it off, which every mage has know for a decade now, but in that case it was pointless to cast it. It did nothing other than burn your APM, create a big window for misplay, and maybe, possibly, helped you.
Your points about ‘the other player can’t win.’ are nonsense, because no kidding, a single enemy is unlikely beat a mage or a rogue. Alter time doesn’t need to exist for a single mage to reliably beat a single melee class.
Would you say you’re typical? Are lots of mage players this completely isolated from what a mage’s primary pvp function is? Do people not play WSG anymore?