If macros are used properly, i.e., for implementing nice, multi-staged, composable eDSLs, instead of just another anaphoric if or similarly useless "extension",

If macros are used properly, i.e., for implementing nice, multi-staged, composable eDSLs, instead of just another anaphoric if or similarly useless "extension", then a Lisp codebase is much easier to read than anything that does not allow implementing macro-based eDSLs.