I’m perfectly able to configure all of the bits and pieces of nginx or apache, but instead of spending 15 minutes or so doing it I tell caddy “here’s my domain name” and move on with my life. The massive benefit is that the features are easily replaced or replicated so if I do decide I want to use traefik or nginx for a specific feature, I can do it when I care about that. But caddy is just batteries included
you forgot to add on the months or years of experience you already have that lets you do that in 15 minutes. Maybe today with an LLM I could figure out certs but the every time I've tried it in the past there's tons and tons of jargon and tons and tons of options and everything is written from the POV of someone that already knows it all.
A classic example is people thinking self signed certs are a good idea without fully understanding the implications of getting every single piece of your application stack and all its third party dependencies to trust the thing.
Which I guess is a good thing, but also man it does place a lot of power into those root CA’s the internet uses.