I've heard that from others but I think a lot of people just don't like the mage classes because they make the game feel easier.
That is true, but that's pretty normal for Dark Souls, they have always been easy mode.
I've checked out a few mage guides and there are a lot of cool and powerful spells that you can get and they show you how to get them.
From what I have experienced on my socrcer and what I have heard, the more powerful spells ultimately do far less damage per mana point than the basic Glintstone Pebble you get at the start which results in you just spamming that spell instead. It's boring and provides no real progression.
We shall see. If it turns out being dumb, I can just reroll a new guy.
I plan on changing mine to faith, after getting a ways into the game you can reallocate points.
Nice.