I would guess that the "typical" Windows user of Perl would prefer the MSI version because ...

Yeah, but they're giving an unqualified recommendation for all users.
It's not the right recommendation for me, and it's apparently not the right recommendation for you.

I'd much rather that they keep their focus on figuring out how to build newer versions of perl, so that we could get strawberry versions of 5.34 and 5.36.

Sure, that's their important job ... but I don't see that getting the "recommendation" right is going to impact heavily on their capacity to get that job done.

Cheers,
Rob