Racket's macro transformers are about as easy as hygenic macros[0] get unfortunately, I can occasionally manage to make a er-macro-transformer based macro in ch

Racket's macro transformers are about as easy as hygenic macros[0] get unfortunately, I can occasionally manage to make a er-macro-transformer based macro in chicken work how I want. defmacro was a lot easier, but I understand the aversion to it, even if it was rare that it was/is a problem. [0] syntax-rules based macros are cake, naturally, but they're also incredibly limited, although I have seen people implement massive complex OO systems using a sort of ad-hoc state machine built in pages upon pages of syntax-rules rules.