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Burne, a very explicit wizard (he had both a tower and a pointy hat!) was on the village council in Hommlet. That's 100% more wizards than my real life low magic city council has.If you look at the modules of the time, so the B series, the A series, Hommlet, you'll see that there was magic, but it was seldom if ever out in the open.
If you're dating the tone changeover to the publication of Unearthed Arcana, which feels late to me, that's halfway through the lifespan of 1E. The golden age, by your reckoning, lasted 10 of D&D's 49 years.The funny part is that if you had showed me 5th edition back in 1982, I would have loved it because the style of play we have today is something I enjoy much more in most ways. But to say that games of that era weren't fundamentally different from what D&D would become at the end of 1E and onward is just incorrect.