Cons cell archaic!?

How? Is there anything wrong with the concept? I thought it was so
easy to parse the S-expressions because of it. Is this really a
problem for Lisp or this is more of a non-Lisper automatic reaction to
something he is not used to?

How would the implementation of a Lisp without a using cons look like?
Would it have any advantage over the "archaic" one?
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