I think the choice of modules and what to use when can only come from experience of those modules, followed perhaps by shared experience and being taught by others.

Recommendations help but experience teaches us the limitations of a module.

I don't think there is a single prescribed way to do anything in Perl. There are a number of ways each of which has its strengths and weaknesses. The inevitable TMTOWTDI applies.

An optimal selection may exist for a given problem, but it may not be optimal for another problem and it may not be optimal over all time as the original problem changes.