Is running a separate instance of the monolith with a separate database for every store really "a monolith" withstanding 1.27M rps? It's a bit like saying Mage

Is running a separate instance of the monolith with a separate database for every store really "a monolith" withstanding 1.27M rps? It's a bit like saying Magento served 1M rps on Black Friday leaving out the small but important detail that each individual store has separate infrastructure and manageable load. Divide and conquer works, congrats to the Shopify team that their design decisions worked out for their use case. And obviously some parts of the system are still shared but my guess is that they are not part of the monolith.