Totally agree. Since when did a work queue/thread pool thing become anything beyond intro to systems work?
Furthermore, I don't know where everyone gets off saying erlang is so fast either: I'm not sure where things are now, but last time I checked, their scheduling algorithms were leaving quite a lot on the table, standing to benefit quite substantially from even the most basic operations and logistics knowledge.
Erlang "doing it for me" isn't going to be anywhere near as efficient as me doing it myself.
I'm probably not the smartest person in the world, but I'm certainly smart enough to write a comet/web server that's fast enough.
I guess I'm not going to convince anyone here shrug. If you believe Erlang is a magic bullet great for you.