Well, I'm not necessarily sure that's something we just have to "face". Perl may not have originally been built for object orientation, but its OO model is quite simple, powerful, and can be very useful.

Do you have any specific complaints about the OO model in Perl (other than it "getting tricky")?

I use Perl's OO model quite a lot, and I find it very useful and easy to use. I have no problems using it under mod_perl, either.

I think you should perhaps do a bit more reading up on the subject, try out some OO perl, and see what you think then. Here are some starting points:

Bless My Referents, by Damian Conway. You should also take a look at his book, Object Oriented Perl, which comes highly recommended. There are some sample chapters online.

perlboot; I don't know your level of familiarity w/ OO techniques, but this is Randal's alternate (as in alternate to perltoot) intro to OO programming in Perl.