Strong disagree that it's because "Omg, no more Perl" but just complexity cranked up and that Perl person stitching scripts together became their full job and o

Strong disagree that it's because "Omg, no more Perl" but just complexity cranked up and that Perl person stitching scripts together became their full job and obviously Perl only got you so far. So now you have additional FTE who is probably expensive. Also, if end user is on Windows, there is already Perl like option on their desktop, it's called Powershell and will perform similar to Perl.