My disillusionment with Clojure and Lisps – Anders Hovmöller – Medium:

I did notice some problems with the community that it shares with C++: the denial of problems and blaming the user. It’s much less severe but in some areas it’s near absolute. Any mention that parenthesis is a problem is the obvious one of course, but I soon hit another one: a macro can only evaluate to a single form. Suggesting this is an annoying limitation elicits many a comment of “you shouldn’t ever need that” and “you’re doing it wrong” without managing to show good alternatives and in many cases just outright ignoring the examples I gave. Or the worst response: “that doesn’t even make sense”, which is the response you get from people who are so deep into the language they can’t escape the box. This is a pity and makes it impossible to introduce fixes for these problems. You can’t fix a problem you can’t even accept exists after all.

Yeah, it sucks to be told straight up that the best way to progress in your learning is sudo /bin/rm -rf.