There was no admitting to themselves.

There was the personal realization that the two factions in what was then the Perl community, would never see eye to eye on what the language called "Perl 6" was. And that all of my efforts of reconciliation, such as the Perl Reunification Summit http://blogs.perl.org/users/gabor_szabo/2013/02/perl-reunifi... had been in vain.

Which lead me to open an issue https://github.com/Raku/problem-solving/issues/81 which in the end resulted in the rename to the Raku Programming Language https://raku.org .

Well it is now raku which i guess was a sensible decision at the time. In hindsight it might not have even mattered to add more minors to perl 5