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There is something about the language and/or community that leads folks to build their own X instead of collaborating on a common open-source version of X.

Perhaps the lisp learning curve is high enough to dissuade those who want to contribute to a project but don't yet know Clojure?

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I have a pet theory that it's because it's too easy to write code in. I think there needs to be just enough pain with a language or library that it becomes worthwhile to allow someone else to write X and just deal with it being imperfect if it still solves your problem.

too easy and too fun.

Also, to anyone interested in this problem, look for the Worse is Better paper

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