> You can fake it anywhere else with more or less work

That doesn't make sense, because there's no way to twist it. It's more work and duplication. I want macros all the time in JavaScript and that is a pretty flexible and dynamic language.

Most of Lisp's other features are common now. Macros are still a big one but you don't need them every day. Lisp has powerful exception handling but I'd rather have Erlang style error handling and recovery.

Lisp's draw is waning but only because our languages are lispy in ways that really matter. We have dynamic, garbage collection languages with REPLs and built in high level data structures that are even better because we have native syntax for them. I don't want to keep track of N different kinds of assoc lists... and I really like Lisp.