I'm not the first by far to request that Perl reclaims its trademark, puts this (by all sensible definitions) failed project behind, salvages whatever makes sense to keep, releases the next version as Perl 7 and tries to undo the damage as best as we can while the ten people still working on the language design exploration and implementation project in it's very beginning touted as the next version of Perl go on with their quest. We've tried to have such discussion several times, the overwhelming majority was in favour and it was always shut down abruptly with "not gonna happen, fullstop". Here, under various blog posts, on Perl6 sites, ...

I know this is not the place, I don't think there is any place. There's no one who'd listen. No one ever did.

BTW, there's an old post of yours that I find very foresightful. Shame they did not hear you out.