Just as one small example: if you're deploying in k8s and want the configuration external to Nginx, you want built in certificate provisioning and you need to run midleware that can easily be routed in-config...

Traefik is far more capable, for example. If all you're doing is serving pages, sure.

I agree with you that they're more or less equal. I don't like the idea of my reverse proxy dealing with letsencrypt for me, personally, but that's just a preference.

One tricky thing about nginx though, from the "If is evil" nginx wiki [0]:

> The if directive is part of the rewrite module which evaluates instructions imperatively. On the other hand, NGINX configuration in general is declarative. At some point due to user demand, an attempt was made to enable some non-rewrite directives inside if, and this led to the situation we have now.

I use nginx for homelab things because my use-cases are simple, but I've run into issues at work with nginx in the past because of the above.

[0] https://nginx-wiki.getpagespeed.com/config/if-is-evil