primary goals of Perl 6 is to create a Perl that is more palatable and accessible to the people
Right, You need to CREATE it first to test its real use. How much more time will it take? Another decade? But what you define as a "ugly, complex, or otherwise has too many rough edges" language has managed to survive nearly 17 years of evolution with millions of users and its maker took probably just 3 years to build it. And is still going strong. We'll see how strong Perl 6 holds out against Perl 5 when they are in competition in the real world. But for that to happen first it must come out clean.
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