Microservices were/are an attempt of standardizing software development practices at really large organizations. For example: your typical big bank has hundred

Microservices were/are an attempt of standardizing software development practices at really large organizations. For example: your typical big bank has hundreds or thousands of teams (both internal and through professional services companies) developing all kinds of applications under different technologies/hardware. In this case due to domain/organizational scale it is not feasible to have a mono repo (or 2, or 3) with a giant codebase. And as a result the typical situation is an expensive hell full of code duplication, ad-hoc integration methods, nightmarish deployments and such. Microservices are helpful in situations like this (even if they are not perfect). But for a company with a couple of development teams and a domain that can be understood almost entirely by a couple of business analysts, it´s overkill.