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You're not really making a strong case here for that "undeserved".
Fair enough. I'm an Apache, Caddy, nginx, HA Proxy "fan" and I generally only worry about IIS when it hoves into view - Exchange for example, or whatever weird and wonderful nonsense a customer comes up with. I am almost perversely going to get into IIS but I probably won't. Following logs on Windows is a right old ballache. The bloody things don't seem to get written to disc for quite a while for those many systems…
I'm perfectly willing to confide IIS is a fair bit faster, more reliable, and better to work with these days than it was in those - but that's a hell of a long way from imagining it's anything like good.
(Also, a pedant's unrelated note, because I've seen a lot of this in particular lately and I'm going to say something about it somewhere: "hove" is an archaic past tense of "heave", as in the related nautical phrase "heave to," as might be found in a commerce raider's injunction to "heave to and prepare to receive boarders". So something properly is said to heave over the horizon; only after it has done so may it rightly be said to have hove.)