Most text editors have some sort of parenthesis matching highlighter. I don't usually find counting () to be that difficult. I see that the greater problem is

Most text editors have some sort of parenthesis matching highlighter. I don't usually find counting () to be that difficult. I see that the greater problem is that lisp (and a lot of languages that empower functional programming ideals), undermine the idea of lines of code that other tools like source control and debuggers take advantage of.