The universe didn’t force you not to believe in magic. You could have spent your whole life believing magnets are magical stones, that the electromagnetic force is magical energy, and that computer engineers are wizards who conjure spirits from magic. And you could have been 100% factually and scientifically correct.
But you chose to believe that magic is by definition not real, because you didn’t want to live in a world of whimsy and wonder. You defined magic as supernatural, in opposition to the natural world. While every scientist knows that nature is just a word for everything that exists. You chose to define magic in a way that it wouldn’t exist, denying it through tautology and not through science.
Why did you choose that?
I would argue that this is what makes it particularly useful. Magic provide a language to describe those phenomena that don’t have a mechanistic explanation yet. That in turn allows people to explore those phenomena in a structured way. That structure may be wrong or arbitrary but it is still better than going in blind.
I agree, but a lot of parties try to co-opt the word to mean other things, which I find less useful.