Why? It's one of the most optimized HTTP servers ever. Anything that claims beating nginx in benchmarks should be treated with high suspicion. I think these zeroserve numbers are likely accurate but it doesn't have the features and module ecosystem of nginx so the margins aren't worth it for me.
Because it passes more boundaries and stuff. But hey, I didn’t code a Webserver so far - so what do I know. :D
AFAIK eBPF can be hardware offloaded. If you have the use case.