Agree, it seems silly to bash microservices as if all (new) companies decide to use them. They are a tool for medium and bigger companies to solve the problems

Agree, it seems silly to bash microservices as if all (new) companies decide to use them. They are a tool for medium and bigger companies to solve the problems those companies have. Fundamentally it's adding some complexity to the overall system by breaking it into components that have smaller scope and are easier for fewer people to wrangle. So one reason services can make sense when the complexity of an initial monolith has grown beyond what the average engineer can be expected to learn in a few months; or if a similar growth trajectory is happening because the engineering team is big enough to write code faster than everyone can keep up with understanding the important changes.