Classic Scheme

What's supposed to be good about Scheme? As I understand it, Scheme didn't even originally have macros, eval, or apply. I can see why it was good for showing that lambda is the ultimate everything, but why did anyone ever try to make it into a real programming language?

It's not like real Schemes lack functionality present in other languages
But they do. It's a bunch of weird functional programming stuff that doesn't support normal imperative programming, but without the features (pattern matching is an obvious one) that make functional languages usable.