> How many of those same people are now going on about how nginx has finally got some support for loadable modules and built in processing like this?
I would doubt many of them are because early adopters tend to also be the kind of people who don't mind compiling their own webserver for whatever reason: time, patience, availability of dedicated hardware to do it on, etc.
The sort of people I saw jumping to nginx were largely not the sort of people who would compile it themselves.
These are often people who would compare Apache + mod_php to nginx + PHP-fpm, and not understand why it's not a realistic comparison of the web servers.
I would doubt many of them are because early adopters tend to also be the kind of people who don't mind compiling their own webserver for whatever reason: time, patience, availability of dedicated hardware to do it on, etc.