Unnecessary Macros?

In particular

```
(defmacro $ (&rest args)
  `(kv ,@args))
```

Could this not be written as follows?

```
(defun $ (&rest args)
  (apply #'kv args))
```

It has been a while since I used this library, but I remember being confused at why many of the macros were in fact macros.

Please let me know how I am wrong if I am.
