What stops anyone from preparing for the DRs though, and there are just a lot of ways you could self cover as fire. Maybe doing that is slightly more advanced but it’s also not really something that should be revolutionary to pick up even as a casual, someone could just ask for advice and get a simple answer in a few seconds on what to fix.
Not as many as frost but it’s more of just sit back and chill pun intended. It’s also over rated how much CC is needed to land kills from the mages contribution though, sitting back and doing nothing is way more rewarding than you’re giving it credit for which honestly isn’t something hard for a new player to pick up
Idk also comparing it to destro and saying that’s far easier when the levels of mages at all levels was incredibly comparable to warlocks just seems really disingenuous - especially a fire mage.
High mobility casters are far better for new players to pick up anyways, there’s a lot of safety involved.