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Considering the original meaning of “hit points” referring to how many shells a given ship could take before sinking, 12hp out of a basic spell is still pretty impressive.
…as a big simplification in naval war games, not as a real-life military rating for a ships durability under actual fire.
Technically that was "life". It's just that conceptually it was hitpoints.
In chainmail, the war game dnd is historically based on, a hit point is a fraction of a hit dice, each HD represents one soldier, roughly, so 12hp being the average of 4hd isn't too bad, no.
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