I don’t know if our architecture truly qualifies as microservices but in my experience one of the advantages is that the system is able to limp along in a degra

I don’t know if our architecture truly qualifies as microservices but in my experience one of the advantages is that the system is able to limp along in a degraded state much more effectively when one service goes down whereas it’s a lot easier to bring the whole system to its knees with a single change in a monolith. This suggests an addition to your model which is that not all outages are equally costly.