And microservices guarantee that every single fad is represented in a hundred different ways in every different microservice, and that there is not a single bit

And microservices guarantee that every single fad is represented in a hundred different ways in every different microservice, and that there is not a single bit of consistency in the code base. The mental overhead of that is HUGE. Every new bit of functionality you have to figure out how this microservice was built? Opening a microservice and learning what developer X did with developer Y's "I don't understand functional, but I'm damn well going to use it, and wouldn't it be great to build this in the Zebeedeee framework that trended on HN two weeks ago and then mysteriously disappeared forever". Bad programmers are going to muck up microservices even worse than they're going to muck up monoliths. At least with monoliths they might actually reuse some code rather than cut and paste it from the last microservice they worked on.