Great comment, I'm glad you put into words what I've been trying to communicate as someone on the outside looking in.

A minor joke here:

> Hell, probably if IntelliJ toolset would allow me to customize it deeper with Lua/Lisp/JS/whatever I’d probably switch in a jiffy.

It's not going to be quick and it's not going to be pretty, but I think you could technically do it with Clojure :-)))