It is true that Hy really shines in those cases where it adopts an existing Python feature and adds meaningful quality-of-life improvements: anonymous functions without limitations; multiple iteration in for-loops; relaxed character set for identifiers. Things that seem completely obvious, once you have them.

It also demonstrates that elegance in a Lisp-on-Python is reached in a very different way than elegance in a stand-alone language, since it becomes an art of making the best out of what is already there.