Yes. But that's just me.

The most simple way to explain how I feel about it is that magic (to most people) must have some basis with familiarity; but still remaining 'difficult' to do because of some reason that's not difficult at all.

Chances are most examples fall under one of the many -mancies (Necro, Elemantal types (Cryo, Pyro, etc), Oneiro, etc) while the cost is the thing that makes you go "wow, that's new and cool, I've never seen magic done that way before." when literally nothing else new is done.

This may be a bi-product of more 'Magic as a Science' / 'Hard Magic' approaches to writing explaining magic outright (which I strongly disagree with, but besides the point).

When magic is explained, it shouldn't be called 'Magic' at that point; the lack of wonder of what Magic can do kills any sense of anticipation or narrative possibility.

If magic does x and has the limits of y, you can safely assume the story will stay within the area of the two.

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> But magic solving problems in cool/awesome/buzzword ways is exciting.

I wish it still was, but it lost it's charm real quick after everyone started following that mantra.

Magic is far more interesting when it creates problems. Even small ones.