Forgot to sign in?   (Will every Monk please keep things &rsquou;round here “strictly business” and just skip the jabs and downvotes?   They get wearisome.)   Anyway ... it was a serious question/comment.

Take CGI::Application as just one example:   it’s slightly hidden, but there it is ...

    # Include CGI.pm and related modules
    require CGI;
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... and the list of dependents is really quite large.   While CGI might not be the best way to run a big, fast web-site, the original way of automating a web-site is still in very common use.   I sensed in the original post (my view only ...) the notion that CGI should be dropped because it is unfashionable.   It is stable, and anything but large, and I suspect that it is much more widespread than one might prefer ... and still doing its job.