Nice, but I think you are exaggerating a bit. Not every Lisper is a smug Lisp weenie. Actually I don't see many of those these days so I don't get the hate. Most of the annoying tribalist folks jumped ship to the Rust and Haskell camp.

Syntax is highly subjective, and funny that you mention Smalltalk, as I had a hard time selling that to some developer friends of mine because the method based syntax really put them off.

I also prefer statically typed languages, at least in the context of professional work with developers with various degrees of expertise contributing to the codebase. Then again, if I have to work in a dynamic language, I definitely take something image based with great tooling and feedback loop such as Pharo or LispWorks over Python or Ruby any day of the week.