Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.
Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.
Perl doesn't have an infatuation with enforced privacy. It would prefer that you stayed out of its living room because you weren't invited, not because it has a shotgun
Information wants to be useful.
That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.