[martinced]

People still complain about how complicated it is to match parentheses and other non-sense like that.

Truth is things like Emacs' paredit are the nuts. Honestly you have to go out of your way to get unmatched parenthesis/brackets/braces when you're using paredit.

Coding in Clojure with paredit feels like you're directly manipulating not text but the AST.

People who have never slurp'ed and barf'ed Lisp code using Paredit or something similar simply aren't qualify to comment about the difficulty of editing Lisp code. As simple as that.