I slightly agree, again. The schism about backcompt, features, core clean-up, had made Perl 5 progress difficult, social as much as technical, and Perl 6 seemed like a natural and well-timed path out of that; then. mod_perl was unsuitable, untenable as a tool to keep Perl on top of the web. It needed a complete rewrite and rethink. Something like WSGI and supporting app servers. That was *not* forthcoming. No one with the skills stepped up. I certainly didn’t have the chops to do so or even understand what was needed at the time. A large part of the community put its nose in the air about stooping so low when we already had mod_perl, a thing of grace and power in its class. Nothing else would have helped send PHP where it belongs. Thank goodness for Miyagawa. No, wait, just thank Miyagawa! :P