From what you are describing, it seems like there is more a problem associated with your team than with anything else. Maybe you don't have the right set of exp

From what you are describing, it seems like there is more a problem associated with your team than with anything else. Maybe you don't have the right set of expertise in the team and people tend to work better with what they are comfortable with. Microservices/redundancy support/CI at a fundamental level increase the complexity of how you go about things, but they do have benefits. They require a way of thinking and developing that should be a cultural fit for the team for it not to feel like you are constantly fighting the system. One way to get there is to incrementally add these after the primary project is done. When tackling one thing at a time, things end up being simpler and and the need for these things gets into the working habits of everyone better and they are no longer fighting the system.