I'm so tired of every game the supports being 
this might just be a low elo thing i don't know if its played in higher elos, but its annoying, its unfun to play both with and against. Whenever lulu or sona start to become good mid lane, riot hits them with the nerf hammer, but when mid lane mages go support nothing happens. this is a bit of a rant and mostly my opinion, but when the support is one shotting you, that's fucking ridiculous.
Play support then. No really do it, there is a reason it is autofilled the most. For many seasons it was the braindead position that no one wanted to play. Now supports get to have some fun and you want to take that away? SHAME. If you really want to go back to sona/janna/soraka/alistar I suggest every 5 games everyone gets locked into support otherwise its going to be a constant dodge fest/inting on the person who gets the short autofill stick.
Lux support main here. The thing with the role is that it can be boring. Mages kind of change that. If you dont believe me try playing leona or some tanky support and you will see. If they remove mages from bot lane no one will want to play support again and guess what, you will wait A LOT in queue or you gonna get autofilled as support. What is the problem with mages at bot lane ? What is support ? The goal in the game is to win, you can choose several strategies to do it. Why is leona support ? Hard CC only and low damage. Not even one shield. Lux can shield the whole team and can lock two enemies from a distance. By saying support i think Lux is more support than Leona but... a lot of people will argue about that. What makes Morgana support ? She has one shield and one snare and ulti that in most cases dooms her. Is she a mage or a support. What i am trying to say is that I hate forced meta. Pushing mages out of bot just shrinks the number of strategies which is.. boring :)
Why is playing against unfun ? Because of the damage you take? Why is playing with unfun ? Because you dont deal all the damage ?
I dont see any arguments in your post.
"Can we corale mages out of the support position"
No because singing at them not to is unlikely to deter people from making the picks that they desire, regardless of harmony.
Zyra mains would love to go Mid like she was suppose to but Riot said F^&* you and killed her plants.
for future reference, the word you're looking for is "corral", "corale" isn't a word.
The problem is not so much that mages can be picked for support, but more that they are better than a lot of supports.
Mages only go bot lane to dodge having to lane against Assassin's.
I don't wanna lane vs Lucian or Draven but I can't take Jinx into a solo lane for example.
Anything can go anywhere.
Welcome to League of Legends. :)
Make support items linked to supports, problem solved.
No. Mages are being played in support because they got pushed out of midlane by assassins and bruisers. Im agreeing with you that i dont like seeing mage supports every game, but if you want to push mages out of support you need to fix midlane first.
Just make Enchanters worth it again so they can actually defend people with their abilities instead of just being walking double kill for the assassins/divers when trying to defend the ADC. And fix all the mages that the mage update screwed up and they'll be able to survive in mid lane again.
But until then, I'm going to play what I need to play in order to win my games. If that means that my teamcomp of Fiora, Rengar, Talon, Vayne, and Brand isn't fun, I can't help that, but I need to be the AP, AOE, and waveclear my team needs since none of them thought those were important qualities. Would've picked Zyra for easier CC, but since the enemy has an Irelia and my plants become just a free gapcloser for her, I'll just hope my AOE damage makes up for our lack of CC since no one else on my team thought that was an important thing to have vs that Yi pick.
Literally, there are so many games I've had where teammates ignore obvious team comp issues and just pick whatever they want to play and I'm stuck trying to cover 14 different things from the support position. At least having a viable mage support helps for those instances. Granted, I would rather not be the APC of our team when I'm 3 levels down and 4K gold behind the enemy APC, but that's the hand I'm dealt so I work with it. If mages were more fun to play mid, maybe more mid laners would choose them.
