[doomvox]

"But unfortunately, some Perl devs in recent years keep thinking that what they need to do is break stuff to 'modernize'. They keep eyeing goals like turning `strict` on by default, and eliminating lesser-used features ..."

There was some talk about that a few years back, but those ideas have largely been abandoned. They've also adopted the "steering committee" approach, and they have something like a formal RFC proceedure to talk over new proposals-- in general the project is in very good shape. And backwards compatibility is still the rule, unlike a lot of other projects out there.