The odd thing about the fully parenthesized syntax is that it's offputting at first, but once you've been doing it for a little while, in an editor that does parenthesis matching and auto-indentation, it gets to be just as easy and pleasant to work with as more common languages, or even more so. (Packages like Emacs 'paredit' make it even better. (I haven't tried 'parinfer'.))

I understand this is hard to believe if you haven't tried it, and it certainly does take some getting used to. Lisp is, in short, an acquired taste. Think of it like very spicy food: many people avoid it, but those of us who like it, like it a lot.