We do not all have to write like Faulkner, or program like Dijkstra. I will gladly tell people what my programming style is, and I will even tell them where I think their own style is unclear or makes me jump through mental hoops. But I do this as a fellow programmer, not as the Perl god. This is all very well for poetry, but I don't think I want to force everyone to write poetry in Perl. Such stylistic limits should self-imposed, or at most policed by consensus among your buddies.
Nobody designs a natural language by themselves, unless their name happens to be Tolkien.
We all contribute to the design of our language by our borrowing and our coinages, by copying what we think is cool and eschewing what we think is obfuscational. Most of Perl's good ideas were not original with me. Some of them came from other languages, and some of them were suggestions made by various folks as we went along. Perl is no exception to this. Because a language is designed by many people, any language inevitably diverges into dialects.