I guess the patronizing and uncooperative attitude towards the community plays its part. If you don't accept Rich Hickey and Relevance / Cognitect / whatever they call themselves nowadays as the ultimate source of wisdom, your opinion is worthless and you're "Doing It Wrong™".

But on the other hand, they're very much keeping the tradition of the of the Smug Lisp Weenie alive, albeit as a caricature rather than a rebirth.