The problem with the justification of the author for 15 years of Perl 6 development is, that Perl 6 will have issues, too. Are you going to change them all at o

The problem with the justification of the author for 15 years of Perl 6 development is, that Perl 6 will have issues, too. Are you going to change them all at once again and take another 15 years for Perl 7? Learning from experience, one of the design goals of Perl6 was the ability gracefully evolve. Thus you get an object system with meta-object protcol, and you can extend the syntax through user-defined grammars. This probably also factored into the decision to have Rakudo support multiple backends.