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As a nihilist, of course, I am not a believer in the dichotomy of "subjective" and "objective."
However, here the point is simpler than one might think. I doubt any language is cryptic, truly, but you can write Perl in cryptic ways, or design your code for others to read, parse, and use.
I -- and every other Perl programmer I know personally -- prefer the latter. The former was a trend for awhile and gave Perl a bad name among those who are inexperienced with doing it right.
Join your local Perl Mongers
https://www.pm.org/
Visit the Perl Monks
https://perlmonks.org/
Higher Order Perl
https://hop.perl.plover.com/
It's just a fun, flexible, highly-efficient language for server-side tasks if you like old school computing.