What GP (probably) meant is that in Lisp you're supposed to write macros, and when you do, this "is simply not worse" than the dotted message sends:

    (-> params (op1 mod2) (op2 mod2))
        params .op1(mod2) .op2(mod2)

There's a reason why just about every Lisp currently in use[1] has `->`/`->>`[2] macros: they're just so easy to write that not having them would be strange. Same with |> in OCaml - with currying, it's literally just `let (|>) x f = f x;;`. So, while it's true that Lisp (or OCaml) base language doesn't have the particular convenience, it's also true that in Lisp (and, in this case, in OCaml) you are meant to extend the language to allow such conveniences.

[1] With a glorious exception of PicoLisp, because quote is all you'll ever need.

[2] And more! With `doto` you have Smalltalk/Dart cascades, with `nest` (https://github.com/ruricolist/serapeum/blob/master/REFERENCE...) you have decorators, etc.