I'm not sure I understand this post. Is this talking about self hosting Caddy in a home lab setting or just static web hosting on a VPS?
I think the author missed the root cause, which is the demise of (unencrypted) HTTP/1.1 connections.
It's partially about how complicated modern Web services can be, and why so many people just give up and ship a Docker container. It's also about how agonizing over the details is sometimes just wasted because all of your users are just AI scrapers.
An art professor I knew used to say about overwrought paintings "too much sugar for a dime". Technical people are often prone to this as well.
I think the author is distributing a web app that is run by hobbyists with a lot of esoteric home labs?