For now, I would just say an effort could be made to make only the most superficial, easiest fixes for now that entail about zero risk. If your house has no curb appear, do the easy stuff first. So if, for example, you've got an old couch sitting on the front lawn, start by getting rid of that instead of scraping off the peeling paint and repainting. Like, just what the hell is that box in the upper left of the page on PAUSE? OK, it's a pause in a musical score. Pure geek humor. But really, it looks like the site is badly broken the way it's executed. And the menu literally looks like it's from 1995.

Now, these are very simple fixes. And it seems to me that if someone were thinking about these kinds of things, they would have been done a long time ago. And so I'm asking myself, why have people left a couch sitting on the front lawn for 20 years? Why didn't someone move it? Perhaps this is done purposefully and the decidedly dated design is a kind of statement that Perl is no nonsense (I don't think the approach is working and there are probably much better ways to pull that effect off). Or maybe Perl programmers by nature don't pick up on these things and stop to think these superficialities are important. Personally, I think they are important.

And I'm not knocking anyone here. I'm grateful for whoever put PAUSE up. But we all have our strengths and weaknesses and we also tend to focus on what we are good at and prioritize those things. And that's absolutely fine.

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