The number of packages involved is a very poor measure of the effort needed to maintain a system. Apache and more established technologies have had much more t

The number of packages involved is a very poor measure of the effort needed to maintain a system. Apache and more established technologies have had much more testing and are far more mature. Their releases are often much more infrequent, merely because most of the problems have already been worked out. Newer technologies, on the other hand, aren't in such a position. Although your solution may involve a smaller number of packages, having to perform weekly or even monthly updates due to the immaturity of the software is much riskier and disruptive than having to upgrade Apache and a few of its modules once or twice a year.