It doesn't seem like P5P (or whoever else has the final word) does strategical planning.

Well it doesn't really, because perl is almost entirely a volunteer effort. The pumping could decree that signatures is our highest priority, but if a volunteer decides that doing signatures is too big and complicated and scary and beyond their ability (and it will be but for a small handful of people) and instead it would be fun to implement defined-or, should the pumpkin fire that volunteer or accept the dor patch into core?

Anyway we barely have the manpower to just fix existing bugs, without adding shiny new features.

Dave.