Why is it extreme? There are plenty of companies out there that don't do microservices. There's no need for me to work for one that does. Maybe I'll miss out on

Why is it extreme? There are plenty of companies out there that don't do microservices. There's no need for me to work for one that does. Maybe I'll miss out on a job with an incredibly well architected microservice that I would love, but I'm perfectly content with missing that (rare) job. I've found it incredibly hard or impossible to gauge the quality of a codebase during interviews. (Beyond immediate red flags like "oh, we don't write any tests or do code reviews" or whatever.) And to be honest, most codebases are bad, it's just a matter of degree. And I would almost always prefer working in a bad monolith than bad microservices.