I had the same thought. Lisp puts an end to the bikeshedding; everyone can build their own shed and paint it whatever they want, without having to break upstream.

It also applies to the recent "Why I'm Leaving Elm" article. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22821447

Part of the struggle depicted in the article is between user defined language extensions "competing" with the upstream compiler.

That's exactly a social problem that becomes a technical problem in Lisp.