I applaud Ovid for the many years of painstaking effort he's devoted to this.

SunnyD, while language stability is vital - and introducing new features entails risk - the alternative is a slow and certain slide into irrelevance. Quoting Stroustrup from Organizational Culture (Part VI): Sociology:

to remain modern and to meet new challenges, a language must grow (either in language features or in foundation libraries)

See also:

• perlexperiment (perldoc)
• P5P update: Smarter Match (perl.com: 2018)
• Bring back the smartmatch operator (but with sane semantics this time)! by smls (2014)
• Re^3: Modern exposition of "case" or Switch in perl 5.34? by kcott (2021)