Having spent 10,000 hours writing Clojure code professionally, I feel confident in saying that the main selling point for Clojure is that it's a simple dynamic

Having spent 10,000 hours writing Clojure code professionally, I feel confident in saying that the main selling point for Clojure is that it's a simple dynamic JVM language with very little magic. If you don't need to use any Java libraries or have any hard requirements on deploying JAR files, then Clojure probably isn't what you need. Personally if using a Lisp-1 was a hard requirement, I'd be looking into Racket.