I don't guarantee the success of an effort to find a new value proposition! It is necessary, not sufficient.
And it broke away so far from Perl 5 that it is no longer Perl 5's new value proposition. The Perl 5 community will need to come up with one of their own.
In time it broke away but ~20 years ago, the promise was backwards compatibility. Looking back, that's madness, but it's one of the decisions that totally grounded development of Perl 5.
And it broke away so far from Perl 5 that it is no longer Perl 5's new value proposition. The Perl 5 community will need to come up with one of their own.