I've reconsidered what I wrote above – you're right. I'd built a mental model of what "microservice" and "SOA" meant that apparently isn't entirely in line with

I've reconsidered what I wrote above – you're right. I'd built a mental model of what "microservice" and "SOA" meant that apparently isn't entirely in line with what others are commonly using. I maintain that it's not a panacea, and that complexity is pulled into other places (operations) where we perhaps don't have equally effective tools at this point. I'd also argue that it's difficult to understand the correct level of granularity (and potentially expensive to fix errors in this decision). But it's not the problem I made it out to be.