Don't underestimate the effect that the Perl 6 disaster has had on the reputation of Perl as a whole, even if Perl 6 is a rather different language in many ways, and generally promoted by a separate community.

Even if the Perl 5 community has generally admitted that Perl 6 was a failure and has moved on, a lot of people first think about how disastrous Perl 6 was well before they think about anything positive involving Perl 5.