Why [do you not like CGI.pm's interface much]?
Mostly because it's terribly inconsistent. Why is is Vars ucfirst, but param all lc? Why are some, but not all words in names separated by underscores? Another thing I absolutely do not like is the prefixed minus for arguments. Perl is not a shell, so stop trying to look like one. And even then: no, that minus doesn't make it look like shell command line arguments. Of course, the minuses are needed because CGI.pm mixes positional and named arguments.
Yes, CGI::Simple is much faster than CGI.pm. And that's a good reason to use it. I use it often. Doesn't mean I like the interface. I understand that it wants to be compatible with CGI.pm.
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