The funny thing is that it's _not_ more parentheses, roughly, than one would expect to find in any Algol/C-inspired language, like C# or JavaScript.
This tired trope needs to die. Yes, there are more parentheses, because lisp also uses parentheses where other languages use [] or {} or ;.
The real thing is that people from C-like languages are used to seeing different block markers for different constructs. It takes effort to read Lisp coming from other languages, because those other languages have a richer symbol vocabulary. Learning to read code without those symbols is like reading English where all punctuation has been replaced with a single space. Sure you ll get there eventually but it s a very cheap straw man argument to pretend that the only complaint people have about Lisps is the positioning of the parentheses.