> I just don't like them
That is what I don't get. I have used many different languages, and often is not the syntax that I don't like - I may dislike the semantics, the runtime, the tooling, but syntax, really how? It's like "I hate Greek alphabet", even though this is a weird comparison - alphabet is a flat bag of arbitrary symbols with no structural role, so disliking it sounds incoherent by construction. I just can't ever get over "s-expressions hate", in such a way like: "What are you even talking about? There's practically zero syntax in Lisp."
That's precisely the issue: there is only one syntactic form. Everything blends together and ends up looking the same. It makes my eyes hurt.
I have quite the opposite effect. I don't "hate" programming languages, but honestly, sometimes I don't understand how the fuck we (people) managed to build layers and layers of complexity (both syntactic and semantic) for things that can be concisely and simply explained as simple Lisp forms.
I get bonkers hysterical laughs sometimes, grabbing a piece of Java, Typescript or Python and asking an LLM how a similar code would look in Clojure. That doesn't universally yield "better" results; sometimes, the code may look certifiably more cryptic than the original - brute-forcing an algorithm into Lisp can look very terse, but that's up to the coder - I am capable of writing cryptic yet functioning code in any language.