As a magick practitioner the whole “magic is science we don’t understand” thing frustrates me.

It’s not totally wrong: magick is full of proto-science. But you can also practice magick without acknowledging any forces not accepted in scientific consensus or proposing any mechanisms that would be a tough sell to a scientist.

This often makes talking to “skeptics” hard! Some magick practitioners are really attached to dubious models (many of them scientistic though not scientific — ex., quantum anything), but a lot of the time a skeptic will say “that’s not magic, that’s just availability bias” and the Magus will try to explain…