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I have the opposite opinion: autoCAD is great. A true emacs for CAD. It has a really steep learning curve but once you get it is as essential as Excel and a tool for life. You can draw everything there and (like emacs) script it with lisp.

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Okay, three questions, if you'll humor me: What LISP resources particular to AutoCAD would you recommend, what are your favorite scripts, and for context what do you do / use AutoCAD for?

1 & 2: Best generalist lisp routines were natively included along the years. So "lisps" (as non-tech guys call autocad scripts), nowadays, only make sense to answer to custom needs. You can be sure that any architectural office have plenty of stuff (design related) that could be gladly optimized/automated. The problem is that they rarely have a person (or the budget) to do it.

3: I'm an architect (housing kind).

Newbies use to hate Autocad. I hated it in the beginning also. It will take at least a couple months until you start to get some profits from it. A couple years to get proficient.

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