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I don't find it so implausible. Those items were probably in the hands of others adventurers, some of them fell fighting against monsters and foes so players find them in their lairs or keeps. In 1E and 2E frequently players built keeps and castles, and ruled over feuds, and when retired (if...

Don't say I like the rules in 1E and 2E, but those questions have answers. Magical items usually aren't destroyed or lost, so they get accumulated over thousands and thousands of years, so the items players find, are not only the items created during their generation, but also those created...

Yeah, I overlook that. Neither the other spellcasters are guaranteed to have arcana, But on the other hand, the wording still states that you are actually casting the spell: "Otherwise, you must make an Intelligence (Arcana) check to see if you can successfully cast it."

I think WoTC seriously underestimated low level characters damage output. At level 3 almost every class can deal huge amounts of damage per turn, even if limited to a few times a day.

Yes, but the fighter doesn't have it, while all wizards do. I was talking of the spirit of the rules and the general lore of D&D settings, taking also into account past editions (2e and 3e). With the current wording anyone can try the Arcane check, there are no trained only skills anymore...

Yes, but if that were the case, then there would be a prerequisite for spellcasters to be proficient with the language in which magic is written (common or whatever). True, but that's a relatively long process even in the most simple cases, and here the scroll is used in one action. I would...

The succubus/incubus drawings look like Twilight fan art.

Above it, the DM reads: "A spell scroll bears the magical words of a single spell, written in a mystical cipher." No amount of luck or cleverness allows someone to read a text in a completely different language than yours and written using an unknown character set.