The one that caught my eye is that the macros are disappointing: they merely feel like (not even glorified) syntactic sugar for an eval wrapped in a function.

The one that caught my eye is that the macros are disappointing: they merely feel like (not even glorified) syntactic sugar for an eval wrapped in a function. Hint: if I'm manipulating/interpolating a string, it's an eval, not a (lisp-y) macro.