You can make that argument, but reality is that casual users do configure apache so it ends up becoming a concern of the developers whether they want it to be o

You can make that argument, but reality is that casual users do configure apache so it ends up becoming a concern of the developers whether they want it to be or not. Like I said, in the long run, it might be better to make the switch, but a change can cause significant risk/inconvenience to casual users or users who have such complicated configurations it would require significant time to replicate in another format.