There's a concept in programming language design called "weirdness budget". There's only a finite amount of idiosyncratic syntax and semantics your language is allowed to have before it starts to turn off potential adapters because it looks too unfamiliar, too unintuitive, or too opinionated compared to what they already know.

Perl has never cared what the mainstream programmer community thinks. It is willfully and deliberately weird; when it adopts or reinvents concepts from other languages it does it in a way that seems purposively quirky; it invents bespoke vocabulary for things that already have well-established names. The Perl community appears cultish, lacking a certain self-awareness and cognizance of the programming world at large. It's like an alternate timeline where everything seems eerily off in some way.

Perl blew its weirdness budget a long time ago and never cared. And given its well-deserved reputation as a write-only language, it's no wonder at all that people don't take it entirely seriously.