If Lisp is too powerful then you are too weak :-)

Lisp requires a new way of thinking - in recursion, lambdas, mapcars etc. - to write good code which reflects the awesome abilities of Lisp. Unfortunately many people don't grasp it. They don't want to think or to learn superior ways if they just can use a language which makes them able to solve their problem. The way to the solution doesn't matter a lot if the solution itself works.

Btw the same phenomenon happened with Ada. The Ada 95 language is awesome. I admired it, it was real fun to use it. But average programmers are simply overwhelmed. That's the reason why Ada died.

Many people also complain about Unix and Linux but if you take the effort and learn it seriously you will love it.