The Perl5 community does try and listen to the rest of the world. Unfortunately many of the people we'd like to be listening to make the sort of comments you just did rather than providing constructive criticism that we can effectively address.
The reason for shouting "pay attention" is that many people aren't even bothering to look because they're still stuck with an image of Perl5 based on ten year old information, and we'd at least like to be hated for what we are now rather than what we were back at the end of the last century.
If that upsets you, you're welcome to continue to not pay attention - but we've been getting lots of useful feedback from the people who have and so far as I'm concerned that makes it all worth while.
Which is why we've been working on http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?CatalystX::Declare.
The Perl5 community does try and listen to the rest of the world. Unfortunately many of the people we'd like to be listening to make the sort of comments you just did rather than providing constructive criticism that we can effectively address.
The reason for shouting "pay attention" is that many people aren't even bothering to look because they're still stuck with an image of Perl5 based on ten year old information, and we'd at least like to be hated for what we are now rather than what we were back at the end of the last century.
If that upsets you, you're welcome to continue to not pay attention - but we've been getting lots of useful feedback from the people who have and so far as I'm concerned that makes it all worth while.