I actually agree with all of what you say. I have done monkeypatching of that sort -- as a workaround for some bug in Apache Wicket, I forget the details -- and

I actually agree with all of what you say. I have done monkeypatching of that sort -- as a workaround for some bug in Apache Wicket, I forget the details -- and it wasn't elegant but it worked. Also agreed, I'm sure other ecosystems share these problems. I know nothing of Perl, but I trust you on that.