Perl was my goto language for over 10 years but I lost my patience with the Perl6 for Christmas meme around 2013 by which time Ruby was a much better proposition. If the Perl5 community had finally found a way to adopt a MOP they might have had a chance of competing with Ruby and Python. I also feel Perl might have had better adoption in web development if the community had rallied round Mojolicious instead of Catalyst. Catalyst's routing via subroutine signatures is an abomination.