Probably not your point but > If you see you could have done something simpler, can you de-complicate it? this is why I think microservices are generally bett

Probably not your point but > If you see you could have done something simpler, can you de-complicate it? this is why I think microservices are generally better - because they increase the friction to create coupling, and coupling creates complexity, and in particular makes it very difficult to de-complicate things. Put another way, microservices make coupling far more obvious, and the presence of strong coupling in a microservice architecture should be a massive red flag - one that's really easy to miss in a monolith. The unfortunate thing about participating in these exchanges, however, is that it's impossible to explain ourselves in sufficient detail, so in the monolith vs microservice debate, we all end up just speaking across each other.