It's not a straw man for me -- it's what I think of a lot of Lisp code.

I think it's really instructive to compare things written in the early days of Clojure to Clojure right now. Some times I just want to find the author of some code block, shake them, and yell "No! The only reader macros you are allowed to use are ', `, and #() !". Absolutely beautiful language, but way too easy to make unreadable.