Indeed. Perl has many sub-communities. Some "wizards" enjoy obscure syntax. Other people enjoy figuring out new ways to make reusing code easier. Some other other people enjoy talking about testing. Some people do all three. etc., etc.
Basically, "Perl" is a very large community, and different people in the community use Perl for different things. Some just want to have fun and others have real engineering problems to solve and are solving them with Perl. Perl is welcoming to everyone. It's a shame that people think the playful applications of Perl make it unsuitable for real work.
UNIX has "wizards" too - and perl's origins as a super-awk place it firmly in the UNIX cultural tradition in a lot of ways.
I write more perl than anything else but I work in shell, make, perl and C regularly depending on what level I'm trying to work at (and often think in lisp for prototyping).
UNIX is my IDE. perl5 is my VM. CPAN is my language.
They are all irrelevant monikers.
Use whatever works for YOU. Taking the conversation any further is as pointless as any other religious war discussion.