A couple years ago I would have flamed you. Now I am in agreement.

It seems to me that mod_perl is a great way to hack out something slick - i.e. when mod_rewrite doesn't quite cut it, use a PerlTransHandler to change $r->uri() to another value based on what your database says (or whatever).

Another case of "Just because you can do X doesn't mean you should do X."

...I suppose you could apply the same argument to writing an http server in Perl.