Well, thanks.

Perl lost most of academia to Python

Yes, completely true, in the broader context of scientific data processing in general. Even in bioinformatics, which was a traditional stronghold of Perl, university courses now teach Python (and the few holdouts in backwater universities teach from decades-old, Perl 4 style textbooks, which is arguably worse than nothing).

I have half a mind to write a detailed post with statistics like counting the mentions of Perl vs. Python and the rest in texts of millions of articles on ArXiv.org, the number of new Perl vs. other project on github in a yearly breakdown, the number of users and posts/day related to Perl vs. others on stackoverflow, reddit and the likes, but seeing the reactions to my original outburst - should I even bother?