It's such a bad technical decision for most people. Everyone rewrites it's own gateway / reverse proxy with bugs, lacks of feature, security problems and non standard integration.

Nginx / envoy should be your default choice for most use cases.

Agreed. Feel like the AI era has removed a lot of the “don’t roll your own” instincts people had.

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. There is a lot to be said for battle tested.