That's the theory. What I've observed is that that companies who cannot achieve modularity w/ monolith are often the same ones incapable to achieve modularity w

That's the theory. What I've observed is that that companies who cannot achieve modularity w/ monolith are often the same ones incapable to achieve modularity w/ MS anyway. So now you have in practice is a distributed monolith, with brittle, ad-hoc dependencies between services. A symptom is that most features require touching many MS.