5 years ago this was very much true but with serverless services, it drastically lowered the cost of overhead.

It is more work but the goal is always to move away from monolith and to reap the benefits.

We are past the Backbone.js phase of Microservices from jQuery phase into React phase. An established standard with dividends that pay later is being realized.

I just no longer follow these microservice bashing tropes in 2022, a lot has changed since that Netflix diagram went viral