> "I do wish there were an easier way to move in the ]}]})))}-ness of block ends though."

If he means navigating the AST, there is Parinfer: https://shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer/

Paredit / Parinfer ruined other languages for me. It lets you navigate up/down/in/out of the Clojure AST with keyboard commands and mutate those expressions, e.g. "Split" will split open the current data structure you're in: `(a| b)` =Split=> `(a)| (b)`, where | is caret. Join is the inverse, and it works for all data structures.