I'm curious to hear what you've built with LFE, and what the experience was like? What would you say were the biggest stumbling blocks you ran into?

I'm also in your camp (not liking Elixir or Erlang's syntax, but really liking BEAM). I like Clojure a whole lot, but would prefer it on BEAM for a whole variety of reasons. LFE seemed like a step back from Clojure in many ways when I looked at it.