I wonder if it is harder to let so many engineers go when you have so many microservices as Uber has/had. Seems to me that a monolith is easier to maintain when

I wonder if it is harder to let so many engineers go when you have so many microservices as Uber has/had. Seems to me that a monolith is easier to maintain when the amount of people working on it goes down, then with all those small microservices. They maybe/probably will have microservices running that now has no one to maintain them.