Lisp languages give every programmer the power to be a language designer. Unfortunately most people are not meant to be. Most devs are not even very good at co

Lisp languages give every programmer the power to be a language designer. Unfortunately most people are not meant to be. Most devs are not even very good at coding, and hence PR reviews, style guidelines, design recommendations, linters, etc. Humans are very flawed creatures. Now add to that: - if a feature exists, it will be used. - at work, you don't have unlimited resources, you have constraints, and you will take shortcuts. And now you have a good picture of why, yes, lack of expressiveness is a something that you might want.