Having syntactic affordances for every nuance of semantics is what led to the current state of zoo. What is wrong with having trivial syntax and distinguishing semantics by labeling parts of the syntax tree with symbols?
Specifically with scheme, I believe the main problem is the symbols lack any distinction to know the difference between a function call and a syntactic form.
(Don't shoot the messenger, I've done my fair share of scheme. I've also done a lot of thinking about why some people are so turned off from the syntax, and it's certainly not that the opening parenthesis is in a slightly different place on the prefix function calls)
