• 25 web frameworks
• 10 ORM layers
• 6 Charting/Graphing libraries
• 5 Email-sending modules

Sounds like you need to create a survey (Survey Monkey comes to mind) and ask people to take it. But why ask people for their opinions when you experience may not be the same as theirs?

I know I was keen to use an ORM interface to my database and spend a week trying to wrap my brain around Class::DBI. I hung out on IRC, asked all sorts of stupid questions and got nowhere, so decided to stick with just writing my own queries and commands instead of doing database stuff programmatically.

I also tried using CGI::Application about 6-7 years ago and couldn't figure it out, but gave it another shot two years back and it worked out great.

On the other hand, I've used Template Toolkit for half a dozen years and think it's fantastic. As long as it stays up to date, I won't need any other templating library.

But those are my experiences, and they reflect my own strengths and weaknesses. You probably have different experiences, so my choices won't necessarily match with yours. So even doing a survey of what everyone uses won't help you -- you need to figure out what works for you.

And don't think about needing to pick one of 7500 choices -- look at each piece individually. Being as this is Perl, it's pretty likely that your best choice for each part will work fine with your other choices.

Really, I think you're over-thinking this whole thing. Pick some tools that you're comfortable with and Just Do It.