I guess it depends on what kind of scholars you think of. If you think of wizards like liberal arts scholars, no, Fireball doesn't really fit. But if they're more like chemists, physicists, or engineers, then most wizards think explosions are awesome (as long as you don't much care about the things in it).Edit: i see the wizard as an intellectual, a researcher, a learned scholar of the arcane, so when i see a bunch of people all going “yes, the spell that most represents what this guy is all about is the giant explosion” you can see why that might cause some dissonance, it just seems more fitting for a wild instinctual sorcerer or the bargained-for-power warlock to me.