Support team says Nginx + Passenger harder to support than Apache (2 replies)

I work for a big news organization in the South East.. The support team is arguing that it's more difficult to support Nginx + Passenger because any patches, etc are made by updating source ( compiling modules statically ) and re-installing. This is as opposed to Apache that can be updated using yum with pre-built binaries.

Curious what people on this mailing list say about the support team argument.