I am just seeing the other replies now. Haven't been able to get to them yet. I don't ignore any response on here, except for Anonymous Monks'.

As noted, I am interested in Dist::Zilla because 1) that is what is being used by Dancer2 and 2) I was looking for ways to automate things and it does this nicely.

Regarding deep/shallow end, yeah, you are right. But it is definitely nice to be able instantly trigger a bunch of automation with a few keystrokes. Sure, it offers much more power than what I need at this point writing my hokey little module. However, getting familiar with it has unlocked a lot of the mystery of the process for me and has gotten me a bit fascinated by it. It's approach with the .ini files set up like they are as a kind of mini programming language was something I've never seen before and I thought that was interesting.