They are better at scale (hundreds of developers or machines needed to run the system). They are better at avoiding downtime during deployments because everyth

They are better at scale (hundreds of developers or machines needed to run the system). They are better at avoiding downtime during deployments because everything is built around supporting it - but at huge cost. Offline migrations - which may be taking just seconds/minutes - are so much easier to do. We're talking about order of magnitude difference in complexity of adding new features. In typescript world, monorepo with shared packages where some are dockerized services (all under same monorepo wide version) is more than enough for most projects. Microservice crowd will call it monolith (because services can't be deployed independently, they likely share SQL database etc), but it's a set of services. You can run it from docker/swarm/k8s - scalability is not really a problem here until you're HUGE (hundreds of developers or hundreds of machines to deploy to). Refactoring, adding new features, dropping stuff etc. - is all easy, usually type checker will guide you to all places that need changing. Single set of migrations. Straight forward e2e. Fast local development where you can spin the whole thing etc. Why people like to complicate their lives when they have this?