By that logic, you'd expect NUMBER and STRING return values to ref (or even INTEGERR, UNSIGNED, and DOUBLE)!
I don't think it's harder. If you write recursive code to handle deep references, you just find out you have a reference one level deeper. Hey, maybe we should also have a REFREF value, too, and REFREFREF, ...
As for Dumper.xs, I hadn't looked there, because my question was about Perl usage, which XS is not; it uses the perl API and uses SvTYPE directly. *That* bit of code never sees what ref would return on a variable.
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