> I think Raku is an interesting language and that people should check it out, to be clear

I agree :-)

> That doesn't mean I agree with every choice the Rakudo implementation has made

Indeed. Some of these choices have their roots in the late 1990's / early 2000's. Some of them make less sense now than they did then. FWIW, these are continuously evaluated by the current core team, to continue to improve Rakudo.