In my view Red Hat and consequently CentOS has been hostile to Perl for more than a decade; they had a disastrous build 10ish years ago that *crippled* any OO Perl code and it remained unrepaired for two years despite ardent requests for a simple build fix. I don't know if it's intentional, for example to funnel users towards preferred languages, or not. I do know it's made me choose other flavors of Linux when I have a choice.