For you, it may be a no-go, but there are many other people who use it. And API-wise, AnyEvent isn't bad, and I think it's a better API than POE, for example.

I understand that you are suspicious of modules because of their author, and I have such a "blacklist" of authors as well. But I don't find it constructive to reject modules without telling people at least why you find them unacceptable to use, especially if it is for reasons having more to do with the author than with the module(s).