Yes, it is not just a Perl thing, however Perl seems to be on the poor side among all the solutions. One of the major problem is that Perl SOAP is so out-of-dated, when other solutions are getting improved all the time.

Interoperatability is an issue, but Perl seems to have much poorer interoperatability.

Awhile back I heard some stupid comment saying that one should not complain about SOAP::Lite, because it is lite, and if one is a good programmer, why not just code from bottom up. That was one of the most stupid comment I have heard here. If everybody is going to code SOAP bottom up, then IT is not an industry.

A good programmer is lazy, and with a good SOAP solution, you are even not aware of the existance of SOAP.