Jefe Bergenstein
Legend
I get that Paradox exists because WoD was sad that people were playing Vampire the fun way being Matrix with fangs instead of being tortured souls, tormented by being awesome superbeasts. They should have tried writing a reason for the setting to be that way instead of a block of radioactive handwavium.
If not paradox, what reason would you accept for keeping Mage Mage? You could just ignore it, but then it's not exactly Mage anymore and you need to explain why the world isn't all gonzo magic. Or make it all gonzo magic and but then it's even less like Mage. Or ignore the ramifications entirely, but then you get into the Reed Richards is Useless, where the world is exactly like ours except for godlike superbeings which cause no downstream effects for some reason.