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Lisp must be read outside->in to understand what it is saying. Given (foo (a) (b c)), if you don't know what foo is and just start reading (b c), which is inside, hoping that later you can work out what is foo, you could be going down a blind alley. foo could be a macro or special operator which entirely controls what (b c) means.
To understand what is calculated in Lisp, given that you understand what the syntax means, the evaluation is inside->out.
That's no different from math. In any languages that have math-like nested expressions with bracketing, you have inside-out evaluation.
The alternative are catenative languages and such, which have never been mainstream.
There are assembly languages which go line by line.
Imperative languages with statements and expressions tend to have small expressions where evaluation is followed inside-out; the rest of the control flow is just top down, with some forward and backward skips.
Lisp has all of the above in it. Lisp can be assembly language. For instance, in thsi source file from Clozure Common Lisp:
https://github.com/Clozure/ccl/blob/master/level-0/ARM/arm-h...
(defarmlapfunction fast-mod-3 ((number arg_x) (divisor arg_y) (recip arg_z))