All this means is that teams have to enforce readability. It's not good or bad, just a different shifting of responsibilities - and this is something that you s

All this means is that teams have to enforce readability. It's not good or bad, just a different shifting of responsibilities - and this is something that you still need to do for other languages, there's just more tooling (like flake8 and black for Python). I worked on (and modernized) a distributed ETL system all in Perl some time ago, and applying the long-codified ideals of Modern Perl made it one of the cleanest codebases I've ever worked in.