the kind of people who make up the Perl community

People who have decades of experience programming?

People who've written perl itself?

People who've given countless advice to hundreds of people for free for years?

People who've written millions of lines of code to solve problems, big and small, and give it away?

People who help fund Perl Monks, YAPCs, and TPF sponsored projects?

If you're butting heads with those kinds of people, and if they all say "Hmm, I think your approach needs some improvements", and if they tell you their reasonings, and if their reasonings include personal experiences over years, it's worth considering the possibility that they're all right.

Please don't misunderstand me. There's a possibility that you're a genius and you see something none of the experts see. That happens sometimes. I'm inclined to go with the experts, though. They have a history behind them.