^Don't really know what your point was
Maybe you linked the wrong comic?
Anyways; I just use "mage" as shorthand for "magician", like most people. Though typically "mages" are offensively oriented whereas magicians can also be illusionists.
My point is if somebody uses
magic, I just generally consider them to be a
mage. Whether they are technically an illusionist, sorcerer, necromancer, shaman, arcanist, conjurer, etc is of no concern to me