Wouldn't it make more sense to use default and/or lazy?

has 'CONFIG' => (
    is      => 'rw',
    isa     => 'Object',
    lazy    => 1,
    default => sub { Package::System::Config->new },
    );
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That way you won't need _init().

It would probably be even better to make a subtype for the Config object.