To be fair, PhDs and postdocs can’t call down lightning from the sky or reanimate the dead to do their bidding.
Of course they can and do call down lightning; the magic spell is called “lighning rocket”.
To revive the recently deceased a spell called CPR combined with Defibrilation is used.
Some wizards dedicate their lives to researching even higher level spells
Nor can they Magick-up all their needs, or transmute gold.
It’s called a 3D printer, Amazon, and a particle collider https://glintpay.com/us/blog/modern-day-alchemy-making-gold-atoms-cern
Hmm. Too bad you need a bunch of resources for those instead of… Idk, waving your hand and saying some words.
“A bunch of resources” being a pile of ancient tomes and a cheap craptop running Linux, as opposed to a pile of ancient tomes and a runestone?