Great analogy, and similar to how I saw things play out.

IIRC Perl 6 wanted to expand or morph into something better, spent a ton of time on it, and the community in general rejected it hard.

So now we have this dangling language that's shunned by its own community, regardless of its merits. Weird place to be in.

lol

Well Raku is not shunned by the very warm and welcoming Raku Community … https://raku.org/community