I'm not complaining about the system, it is what it is...I just don't think its fair, nor fun. I hate searching for wands. My solution was simply to stop playing mages and its worked for me so far. Maybe your right and i am lazy not being able to put up with that level of tedium, but meh, i just don't searching aimlessly for magy places. My last mage didn't find a single wand, and i managed to survive but meh, i didn't really enjoy it.
All that said, i don't think you know what the fuck your talking about.
You base you experiences on practically one throw away mage. Most people who are complaining play mages way more then you do, they find one or two wands with some mages, but at the same time with other mages they find none while on others they find it but can't manage to get it reliably. It sucks for them that its so random, that they put alot of love into a character that randomly ends up being much more fustrating and tedious experience then someone like you who simply got lucky. As a mage you sometimes need a/s/b and those limited sources are just that, limited something they aren't fucking there. When that happens your limited as to what you can do. While its currently not that way right now with almost no people to play with/against (or teach you locations), when there are people around you need to compete with other scroll/talisman using classes for some of those sources.
Honestly you don't play mages, so stop shitting on the opinions of other people who actually do and might have a better clue about what the they are talking about.