It's quite possible to do a monolithic app well and correctly. It's also quite possible to do a big pile of microservices as a cohesive app well and correctly.

It's quite possible to do a monolithic app well and correctly. It's also quite possible to do a big pile of microservices as a cohesive app well and correctly. In my professional experience, where I've run into numerous examples of good and bad examples of both, microservices tend to win because it's a lot easier to unwind the badly implemented microservices compared to the badly implemented monolithic service. Of course, this is just another small set of anecdata.