I'm also sticking with bless() for now. For my use cases, it is still the most flexible way of doing things. I often need to run code before and after SUPER::new(), and i have quite a few modules that have multiple new() functions, depending on how i want/need to initialize them. And factory classes, multiple inheritance, etc...

Not to mention that rewriting a lot of my (tested and proven to work) codebase would be a huge undertaking, and mixing OO systems within a project seems like a very bad idea.