doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
Right, if an effective tool exists that can make you better at a craft, and it is feasible to obtain it, we generally will do so.Well, my observation in the game system/setting where it was most true (Runequest) was that people didn't insist on avoiding magic. Even in versions where it wasn't pretty much the only route to higher levels of power, nobody was bent out of shape avoiding having Healing and Bladesharp.
And so to accommodate the players who just want to play a fully mundane character, without having to just handwave the strangeness of the choice, you have to have in universe reasons a person might never learn any magic, or just expect them to compromise and be minimally magical, rather than fully non-magical.