haproxy is awesome, I have a Raspberry Pi where it runs dedicated and never causes me issues. The best software can be forgotten.
It still poses us a problem which is that users don't upgrade. For example 1.6 is still routinely met in production despite having been unsupported for 2 years, and sometimes with 3 or 4 years of uptime because users forget about it or just don't want to risk an upgrade for no perceived benefit. I can't blame them honestly, as long as they upgrade before reporting problems or asking for help!