I'm still waiting for a response to this. I'm all for reasoned debate, but you've made sweeping criticisms of Catalyst, without backing up your claims. No Open Source project is above criticism, but it should be measured and considered. Come on, show us some examples of "undocumented abuses of import(), assumptions about the internal structure of other people's classes." If you can't find any, then the developers don't deserve the slur on the project, and if you can then hopefully they'll work to make it better.