> I'm old enough to remember the same complaints about Apache, and nginx being the simpler alternative. Nginx is still far simpler than Apache. It just so hap

> I'm old enough to remember the same complaints about Apache, and nginx being the simpler alternative. Nginx is still far simpler than Apache. It just so happens that subsequent projects picked specific usecases to work on their happy paths to make them far simpler. Certificates is one of them. > Something about systems evolving to a level of complexity/sophistication until they collapse under its own weight... This is nothing of the sort. It's a matter of newer and better options popping up, not that old options got worse.