Two points:

1. If you cannot rewrite Perl and make it a better language, there is no reason for you to expect the community will be rewritten in a positive way. Language is the reason we join the community, not the opposite.
2. 99% of the people who want to rewrite Perl are current Perl users. There is not much reason to expect the community to be changed before the language is changed, or during the time the language is expected to be changed.