The way I see it is that it's just trade-off's to be chosen between. I like alpine because it's simple enough even for me to wrap my head around and understand

The way I see it is that it's just trade-off's to be chosen between. I like alpine because it's simple enough even for me to wrap my head around and understand what's going on. None of what I'm serving is high traffic or complex enough for this to matter to my usecase - and I suspect this applies to many people's situation. I appreciate musl/alpine for their stability and simplicity I suppose, and a bit of performance is an OK price to pay in my mind.