> This isn't the first time Perl6 has been 'production ready'

Yes it is

    >  No jobs

Just like every other new language

    > no deep libraries

http://modules.perl6.org/

    > no SDK support

Who knows what that means...

    > If we'd put 1/10 the time into minor improvements to
    > perl5 over the past 15 years

If you think perl5 has been starved of development time, resources, and releases by the Perl 6 effort, you've not been paying much attention.