The avalanche has already begun, it is too late for the pebbles to vote.

Everyone knows it as Perl 6. Therefore, everyone who would write about it after this proposed name change would say "formerly known as Perl 6," so that people know what you're talking about. All the conceptual baggage remains.

(And the reason the Perl name is a boat anchor is because someone hooked a chain to it and sank it to the bottom of the ocean. Perl didn't die from natural causes, Perl was killed by neglect - neglect caused because Perl 6 was always right around the corner and why sink more effort into maintaining Perl 5 than was absolutely necessary? So now OG Perl is stuck on 5.x from now until the heat death of the universe, because this project poisoned the well.)