Fucking every web-dev assumes web-dev is all of programming. I have always been a game dev, never done any internety stuff, I was never interested in it. I would defo find the game engine task a lot easier. I already know what I would do. I wouldnt know where to start with the server + I dont know what the "gotchas" are. If I was forced to do that I would schedule a really long time for it.
I don’t assume that (and am not a dev - DBRE / SRE) at all. I have massive respect for game devs, since you’re one of the few subsets that seems to give a shit about performance.
I bet you could figure out `apt install nginx` and a basic config pretty quickly, definitely faster than a web dev could learn game programming. “What do you mean, I have to finish each loop in 16 msec?”