I think that's a fair starting point, but once you start enforcing better boundaries, you are actually able to access the microservice benefits (i.e. independen

I think that's a fair starting point, but once you start enforcing better boundaries, you are actually able to access the microservice benefits (i.e. independent failure, component-variant scaling, independent update deployments, etc) because there's no risk of failure from a boundary break - and those benefits are definitely inaccessible to even the best-designed monolith.