This is covered in the article. You might say it's the central point of the article - lisp attracts "lone wolf" programmers who want to build perfect abstracti

This is covered in the article. You might say it's the central point of the article - lisp attracts "lone wolf" programmers who want to build perfect abstractions closely mapped to the real-world problem; as opposed to projects that require many man-years of effort run by MBA's who want fungible "resources" to do their tiny-bite-sized pieces according to spec. The philosophy is different.