Another reason is that it gives you more agency to adjust your code. Want to refactor? Cool, I don't have to talk to 15 teams about how this might impact them

Another reason is that it gives you more agency to adjust your code. Want to refactor? Cool, I don't have to talk to 15 teams about how this might impact them. Same thing with changing a schema, changing scaling strategies, etc, etc. I can do things in 2 weeks that would take 2 weeks of just talking to people on a monolith. That might be more organizational than a technical limit, but I've never seen an agile monolith before.