Then it would become complaint against verbosity by those who only saw first lesson of a lisp book. For someone who started learning Lisp way way late in my pr

Then it would become complaint against verbosity by those who only saw first lesson of a lisp book. For someone who started learning Lisp way way late in my programming journey, I would not have appreciated it had I not went through half dozen other languages before. The sheer simplicity of the foundational concept is liberating. That simplicity means Lisp actively encojrages exploration (which is why you see so many Lisp dialects). Unfortunately, most people don't really learn anything new unless they were forced into it. Most people, aren't into exploration. They treat language as a short-term tool to get paycheck, and anything making them use more braincells, even to their own long-term benefit, is an annoyance. To each their own, its just that as good as Lisp is, its MO don't map well with that of most populace.