There's a psychological paradox at play. Many idealistic lispers want a lot of things but they don't play the current game, they (I can include myself partially) care more about the tool than the product and it just dies a quick death.

For this to happen they have to turn their view of lisp from beauty to an effective tool to win on pragmatic points: time to develop, number of bugs, ease of adaptability. CL has a hammer for all this points but you have to see the field that way and produce things.. well basically 'less is more' vs 'perfectionism'