So "web servers" is a particularly competitive category and there are number of options that are all solid choices. For most categories I have 1 or 2 options with 1 recommended. For web servers I have 6: axum, actix-web, warp, rocket, tide, and poem. With a couple of sentences for each explaining why you might or might not want to choose that option.

For me Axum should be the default recommendation because it's the least quirky option. It's also a very thin layer on top of hyper, and built by the tokio team, both of which have a very long track record.

Actix-web is a fine choice, but it's a bit of an odd duck in things like not being based on hyper, which makes it a little harder to integrate with the rest of the ecosystem.