[lvlamb]

I use (pd)ksh, gawk, (gsed) and other legacy tr, cut, ....
To make my wrappers "Windows users friendly", I put them in zenity.
Have some uneasy tasks, translate tables from html pages and send the data to postgresql database.
Take those financial data and generate charts.
I balance between using sql functions or keep ksh in control.
When I looked at CPAN modules to handle some tasks, but for each module, you have to read the pod to finally only use one function ksh or the OS userland can do in a one-liner.
There are modules for everything I need. But, gosh!, you first have the chose the right module, mean reading and comparing even more pods.

Always the case with languages (and window managers) which pretend to do everything. I cmpare them to a Black&Decker: does everything you want ... unefficiently.
Drill, but not as good as a driller, saws, but not as good as a circle-saw, ...