Loking at the current position vote could I invite people to think harder on what the position would alow us to do ?
Because I think that is the greatest argument agains being the Court Wizard, at the end of day we will always be the only wizard in the court, poking at weird stuff on our own time.
Other options, specialy the Steward one, give vast oprtunities to influence the world at large and take advantage of it, while being the official court wizard just doesn't give the chance to plan long term and buit up on things. The only thing it has going for itseld is being the obivious choice, but them we aren't going to stop being a wizard anytime soon.