My personal feeling about this is that shared base language mecanisms such as functions, classes, control structure, interfaces imports, properties etc allow you to reason locally about some files. You don't need to read the whole library in order to understand one piece of it.

With macros this goes out of the window. You have to read all the custom macros before you can understand what is their behavior.

With haskell the same issue exists with complex monad stacks and control libraries like lens.

The ability to analyse a tiny piece of a big system is a major factor in building those in a manageable way.