I must agree. "God's Own Programming Language" (not meant as satire) is certainly indicative of the psychological phenomenon of a superiority complex in the Lisp community.

While some will disagree to an extent, I partially judge languages & tools on their amount of usage.

A robust community for a "bad" tool will see improvements made, and solutions for problems quickly disseminated.

Lisp is just not used enough for it to be the best language or the most useful tool.

Why do you think it's a circlejerk? I'm yet to see an idea in the domain of PLs that's as effective as lisp (dependent types come close). Lisp is a whole package, it solves bunch of problems very elegantly. All "good" languages solve problems one by one by introducing exceptions and rules and features whereas lisp did it by introducing a totally novel, elegant concept. It's hard not to be mystified by lisp. I'm not an old school hacker, but there is certainly something fascinating about lisp.

Better than the Haskell one.