I agree here. Language design needs some artistic freedom, and P6 is clearly exploring new areas in that regard.

I always felt Perl <6 was the papa of Ruby: optimizing for (a) programmer's happiness. Perl showed the way in so many ways, combined with the object model of SmallTalk we got Ruby.

Maybe P6 also has a some new ideas in that find their use in future languages. But we will only know after P6 gets used and loved and exposed to real world scenarios, what those "most valuable/copyable innovations" are...