One would hope that in a battle, you’d send more than one-eyed Cletus from Texas. Not to mention, you don’t have to be particularly accurate to shred someone with an automatic or blow their chest open with a shotgun. When my dad was young and did sports shooting, he regularly hit 50mm bullseyes from at least 30m away.
Also, wizards only have a single, explicit, way to kill and most of them are too terrified to even try it.
Only the really skilled ones and for small things. Even ol’ Baldy-locks himself can’t kill anything without saying something.
It’s something wizards can’t do very well either as they risk ripping themselves in half every time they do it. Not to mention there’s clearly something wrong with the system otherwise they’d use it en masse for everything. Why else do they use steam trains, boats and horse-drawn carriages?
Electricity is useful for a hell of a lot more than just cleaning. Like I said previously, their most advanced form of communication is pen and paper quill and parchment delivered by owl. If I wanted to send @NickGr a “Hey how are you?” I’d have to wait at least 72h to get a response if Nick was in Moscow and assuming that the owl flew at top speed the entire time, both ways, without ever slowing down or stopping. They don’t have telegraphs, telephones, email or any other form of communicaiton.
Again, as I said before, the entirety of their knowledge is stored on paper. They deal solely in physical currency, currency which you can only get from one bank in at least the whole of London, because ATMs don’t exist. Currency which still takes the form of huge gold coins you have to lug around because they haven’t figured out that you can print it on paper or use bank cards. There’s no online banking either…obviously.
Ok, so maybe in CQC specifically, we’d be more evenly matched, but in terms of their development as a spcies, they’re far behind.