I know car/cdr history, and didn't like it. Only after trying clojure[1], I had a weird sensation that I was missing car/cdr and that writing in scheme felt better.

If I tried to explain deeper, Lisp focus on recursion over cons-lists was so foreign to the mainstream paradigms, that car/cdr, as most used operations, became symbolic axioms in my mind.

[1] which goes all in on the intuitive, human, pragmatic side of things, throwing away some old lisp idioms.