Yes, the problem is that all these things are sold as magic bullets -- or worse -- that you current solution is sold as obsolete garbage. The word "monolith" has a negative connotation so obviously you can't have that and so you need something else.

When microservices started to catch on, it was just a name given to a really good solution to a specific problem. And there are plenty of problems for which creating an independent service is a great way to manage both technological and organizational issues. But it doesn't just magically solve those issues -- you can't apply that model to everything just because -- it has to fit the problem space.

I had a conversation on Reddit with a developer whose application had over 3,000 independent micro-services. He was very proud of this solution. But I can't imagine that could be anything but a monolith with function calls replaced with network I/O.