Comment by klibertp

> I wonder if you also kind of shrug at the importance of those things.

Yes, to an extent. I suspect I could nitpick on the points ("but X still works", "this isn't how you work with CL", "it's still better than alternatives", "you can work around that") just as easily as you. I still like working with Common Lisp, after all. Even the worst offender on my list - no native coroutines (or continuations) support - was true for both Python and JavaScript for most of their history. And in their cases, there was no way to sweeten the syntax with macros (as BlackBird does for CL). So yeah, these are all shruggable, even if ever more embarrassing as time passes and the rest of the world leaves some of the issues behind.