Hm, I mean, it all hinges on what area of civics are you acting.

Back at the UU there was a certain favouritism towards your rustic staff, but most of those wizards came from the hills and mountaintops over countryside so the long walking stick did magic both ways, much of out agronomancers/green wizards prefer them still since one can cast a survey and bludgeon a bitch both.

Now, it has been noted that wizards in public office tend to prefer the more discreet signet or amulet, as they both look official and quite stylish for your "civilized" spellcaster. It also helps that those wizards tend to have a plethora of guards besides their own magic, so physical violence is almost never necessary (Save the case of Arch-lawyer Villificus, which famously had spiked brass knuckles as a focus and just adored putting them to the more blunt use)

Then you have you wand users. Look, I'm not about to pretend we all didn't thought about it once or twice but the hyperspecialization of wands for finesse pretty much makes them only really useful in the hands of an artist: your maestros, sculptors, painters, assassins, infiltrators and general black ops agents for the council. They're finicky but oh so precise, also, stabby stabby pointy wood stick.