Wiz spells are second to none later and will be good for raids in Velious. That said, back in 1999 people didn't play with the same meta game we do today. People would regularly fight mobs that were higher level than the group, taking more damage, requiring more healing and having more downtime from the cleric, so the downtime for a wiz to med wasn't seen as a detriment because it allowed them to kill those reds easier.
As time has moved on people have realized killing 5 mobs for 5000xp each is significantly better than killing 2 mobs for 9000 experience each and have moved to a sustained DPS model that just doesn't work with the burst of wizards.
Same thing happened in FFXI, people loved having black mages in their groups to magic burst for max-xp kills against incredibly tough mobs(200xp). Then the meta changed to burning 80-120 xp mobs at a much faster rate and black mage fell out of favor because they were burst dps.
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