> Why is it so hard for most to resist this hype nonsense wave when its oncoming and it's so hard to resist the anti-hype wave that inevitably follows it?

Because then how will one do career development? We are building now for a client and the client wants it, I can feel it in my bones that what we are building is far more complex and will be difficult to maintain. I am no expert in microservices but this hunch is just coming from common sense.