There are multiple ways to do one thing, and it was confusing. There are even multiple ways to call a function. I found myself constantly reading the documentation for syntax.

The language concepts are rather complex. Junctions are confusing.

You can certainly write raku more like natural language than other programming languages, but that comes at the expense of simplicity.

I still have to think like a computer with messy lingual complexity of a human language. A human langauge is messy with a lot of exceptions. A computer language should be simple and clean.

Raku felt more complex than haskell. I also wish raku didn't have OOP because OOP is hard to reason about.

There are still good things about raku. Its package management is better than most others, but the language for specifying package dependencies is complex.

With all the complexities of raku, you still don't get tail call optimization. Thus, I can't really do functional programming in raku.

If you want a simple language, raku is not it. Use raku when only raku ecosystem offers libraries that you want to use. Otherwise, use simpler programming languages.