Hmm, well, don't be too put off by what happens on the mailing lists; we all like to do our share of bikeshed painting, but a lot of that is just noise. Most of the recent design decisions have actually been simplifications to make implementation easier.

Hehe, to quote someone you may know:

Me too. If it's any comfort, just think of the design of Perl 6 as a genetic algorithm running on a set of distributed wetware CPUs. We'll just keep mutating our ideas till they prove themselves adaptive.

This being Perl, we will not tell people that they're using a thread continuation monad, because that would be scary.

To quote again (someone else):

And continuations. But continuations are scary. Good scary, but still scary.