I agree with what you're saying here, in that it often becomes so easy for us to respond to a newbie with "just use Some::Thing". Often I feel that folks want a pure Perl answer, because some of the questions are about exploration of the language, not necessarily about implementation on a deadline, or within budget.

I said something like this in Standard Perl Modules ~ Overkill, namely that if an answer can be specified using Perl core modules, that is just as good, then perhaps it should be. I don't think it was a particularly widely held opinion.