I used to really like Lisp and did some professional programming using both Racket and CL. But now I don't really like it anymore and parenthesis do put me off.

I used to really like Lisp and did some professional programming using both Racket and CL. But now I don't really like it anymore and parenthesis do put me off. The benefit of easy AST manipulation just doesn't seem worth it when the cost is a very heavy and verbose syntax. Everything just takes a little longer to write in Lisp, and the syntax is far too noisy. Moreover, languages with powerful and easy to use macros (like Julia) don't have a paren heavy syntax, so what value does Lisp syntax really even provide anymore? New languages have demonstrated you don't have to sacrifice a lightweight syntax and expressive macros. It also makes writing any sort of code that uses equations incredibly burdensome to write. In short, while Lisp syntax used to serve a purpose (facilitation of macros/modification of AST), I feel like it no longer really does. For comparison, I think OCaml syntax is really nice: light and readable.