I actually love magic, but boy oh boy are you right when it comes to hitting a wall and getting absolutely stuck when magic happens.

I've spent a bunch of time thinking it through and I've come to the conclusion that it isn't actually the magic that is the bad part. It's the lack of the discoverability that is bad. I guess that's why it's called magic right? Because you don't know what the trick is, yet it appears to work...somehow.

I call it dark magic. Magic that is not discoverable and makes no attempt to help you discover it. On the other hand, if you put magic into a solution because you are a wizard and you want to leverage the stunning super powers that magic gives you, if you can also tell everyone how the tricks are being done... it's actually possible to get the best of all worlds.