[kqr]

If you haven't come across it yet, I recommend carving out some time for Growing a Language given by Guy Steele: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0

Steele played a major role in shaping Java, and his perspective is that from a Lisp vantage point, so, naturally, he argues for the opppsite of you.

An important nuance is that where a language like Go or Java limits you to only sentences using nothing but the most common 100 words, Lisp makes it really easy to define other words and integrate them in your speech as though they always existed.

Of course, that ability may lead to a lack of canonical definitions and everyone may soon speak their local variant of the language, which can be both a good and a bad thing depending on your priorities.

[CMCDragonkai]

I find that happening alot with the Elixir community. Over abuse of macros in every library. No idea what's canonical and what's something somebody just made up.

[lispm]

Well, Steele not only worked on Lisp and Scheme before, but he also co-wrote a C book and was working on High-performance Fortran.