[joe-user]

> you get a sub-par editing experience [in Clojure]

Paredit and vim-sexp have no problem doing structural editing. I don't use it myself, but Parinfer was created with Clojure in mind and people seem incredibly happy with it.

> diminished readability [in Clojure]

If you watched the talk that you lifted "complected" from, you'd know that this is subjective. Is German unreadable because I don't know German?

> Clojure syntax is a "complected" derivative of Lisp :-)

Complected in some ways sure, but far less so than many lisps, and certainly less so than Common Lisp. It seems your familiarity is complected with your reasoning.