Perl does not fall apart when you need structure, it's OO. In fact it's better structured than Python (hello, PyPI? It's CPAN calling, we wanted to let you know

Perl does not fall apart when you need structure, it's OO. In fact it's better structured than Python (hello, PyPI? It's CPAN calling, we wanted to let you know hierarchical packages are a thing). If you mean "forcing people to program in an opinionated manner", it doesn't do that by default, but that's what linters and formatters are for (like the ones Python programmers use)