It seems to me the Clojure community internalized the lesson of not writing macros unless it's really necessary more than other Lisps did.

I believe the real issue is that Scheme, which was (through university) often the first and last contact of people with Lisp family languages, has greatly exaggerated case of "everyone reinventing the wheel", and that's before you get into educational reasons that led to people seeing very limited view of Scheme