It seems that you have a beef with a particular(or multiple) Common Lisp libraries. Fair enough. However, I never said that you should write every line of code

It seems that you have a beef with a particular(or multiple) Common Lisp libraries. Fair enough. However, I never said that you should write every line of code in your app from scratch. I did say that you should OWN the decisions for YOUR app. I believe that this more accurately describes the attitude of the CL community (and that of many other languages too). My point was that meta-programming is more powerful in Lisp than Haskell(as far as I'm aware). That's pretty much it.