While you're technically correct, bear in mind that the central difficulty with microservices is managing dependencies. The worst-case for dependencies across

While you're technically correct, bear in mind that the central difficulty with microservices is managing dependencies. The worst-case for dependencies across service boundaries in a system with n services is (n - 1)*n. If n is 3, you have a theoretical maximum of 6 direct dependencies. If n is 10, that number is 90. Which is quite a big difference.