All right, I just voted it up.

Now, what I would say to you now is ... (a) grow just a bit of a “thick skin,” ... (b) above all else, don’t take anything personally ... (c) package up your work in a pretty bow and put it out there on CPAN without any further (grousing or...) delay.

It is usually a waste of time to seek a consensus of opinion.   It is even more a waste of time to seek the praisings of a crowd.   Even if you have got your feelings hurt, don’t let it show.   Don’t let it get in the way of your work.

You developed the tool, and you found it useful ... so, by gawd, somebody else out there might well find it useful, too ... and that is enough.   People come to CPAN for one thing:   to get very excellent software, quickly.   Their decision of whether or not to use it, so long as it does indeed work as advertised, is entirely their decision, so you’re officially off the hook.   I don’t seriously think that there are too many “original” ideas in this world anyhow, but I can count on just one set of toes and fingers the ones that I think were well done...   When one of those comes along, everyone sits up and takes notice, and sometimes, some detractor gets proved wrong.

FISI =   “<*!!>   It ... Ship It!”

... and ... quit whining.   :-D