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Yeah, the existence of disabilities "fixable" by magic is easily explained when you realize that people who do magic are incredibly rare. Like, I'd like to say that if magic were real, I'd be a wizard, but I don't even make an effort to learn real stuff in real life. Do I really think my 10 int ass is gonna read three textbooks about how to make a Magic Missile? Am I arrogant enough to think God likes me enough to let me channel His magic? Maybe one in ten churches has a cleric, and they're busy treating the frequent cholera and dysentery that plagued the world prior to modern water treatment. They don't have the spell slots to spare for someone who's in a wheelchair and lives relatively normally with it
I think the thing that's really getting to me (and probably a few other people too) is the image above. Taken at face value, someone in a wheelchair, seemingly in the role of an adventurer. Well-dressed and can afford a wheelchair, with magic, seems like they could probably have gotten that healed if it were just a normal injury. Healed or otherwise resolved in whatever other manner.
Not to mention, the context certainly does matter and can make inclusions come off as preachy.