> The language wars largely ended, with the more popular languages folding in a lot of the more (at the time) esoteric features.

And the popular languages still don't have sensible macros, with the exception of Rust...

Once upon a time they had very complicated macro facilities: not just Lisp, the assembly of the S390 had one, etc. etc. Then came C with its incomplete #define thing, and the whole concept came into disrepute...