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There is no indicator Crawford or anyone on the design team judged anything about DM "us[ing] the PC creation rules for more textured spellcasters if they wished".

The stated goal was to reduce the possibility space of suboptimal decisions. No mention of anything else.
Sure, but the logical alternative to the complaint "I think the new caster statblocks are too simple now" is to make more complex ones. Because the only other alternatives are to stick to the ones in older books (which they have stopped selling and designing more of) or to do nothing. That's it.