You'll need to say what this "lisp" and the "lisp features" are.

When we go back to the original idea of LISP, we have the following things:

idea -> what follows from those

1) programming with Symbolic Expressions -> support the implementation/implementation of languages

2) "programming with Symbolic Expressions" applied to itself -> Lisp in itself, code as data, macros, self-hosting compiler, Lisp interpreter

3) linked lists and symbols as data structures for Symbolic Expressions

4) a programming system to build algorithms and programs based on the ideas of above -> symbols repository, late binding, recursive functions, symbols with properties, garbage collection, Lisp interpreter using s-expressions, Lisp compiler, reader, printer, read-eval-print-loop, a resident development environment, managed memory, saving/loading heap dumps, dynamic data structures,...

LISP means "List Processor" (not "List Processing"). Which indicates that this is at its core, not a library or an add on.

There aren't that many other languages which are based on these ideas.

We can define three levels of "feature adoption":

* enables a feature (the language provides mechanisms to provide a feature)

* supports a feature (the language actually includes those features, but use is optional)

* requires a feature (the language requires the use of that feature, its not optional for the developer)

If we use a programming system, which requires the four core ideas above (and many of the features that follow from those) and is based on them, it is still very (!) different to what most people use.

Example:

Smalltalk development was started more than a decade after LISP. It adopted a huge amount of features from Lisp: managed memory, resident development environment, garbage collection, late binding, interactive use, runtime evaluation, dumping&loading heaps, etc. etc. For a decade Xerox PARC developed a Smalltalk system and a Lisp system side-by side: Smalltalk 80 systems and Interlisp-D systems were the results.

Still: Smalltalk 80 did not use the first three core ideas from above and replaced them with another core idea: objects+classes communicating via message passing.

Thus mass feature adoption alone does not make Smalltalk fundamentally to be a LISP. Nor does feature adoption make a language popular.

So we can ask use, will those core ideas of Lisp make it very popular? Seems like it did not. Still many of the useful features which were following from it could be replicated/adopted/morphed into other languages.

The original article was probably taking a view that a language&programming system which enables domain specific embedded languages would be "better" than the diverse stack of tools and languages in the automotive domain. Lisp is such a tool for embedded languages (embedded into a hosting language, not in the sense of languages for embedded systems), but that does not make it the best for that domain, which has a lot more requirements than language embedding (like reliability, robustness, etc. ...). In Germany A-SPICE gives a lot of hints what a development process needs to do, to deliver reliable software for the automotive domain. I don't think Lisp would fit well into such a development process.