Unfortunate realities of 1) the difficulty of working on the Perl codebase combined with its unpopularity leading to few being both qualified and motivated for

Unfortunate realities of 1) the difficulty of working on the Perl codebase combined with its unpopularity leading to few being both qualified and motivated for such a task, 2) a lack of corporate backing or visionary design purpose driving such features in the language, thus 3) being implemented almost entirely by one individual who had a long period of demotivation and sickness.