Maybe it's just hard to write about a new, interesting thing without most people getting the impression you think it's the way (especially developers, who seem eager to declare any new tool the One True Way® and everything else 'legacy').
[1] http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html#AreMicro...
> So we write this with cautious optimism. So far, we've seen enough about the microservice style to feel that it can be a worthwhile road to tread. We can't say for sure where we'll end up, but one of the challenges of software development is that you can only make decisions based on the imperfect information that you currently have to hand
"We've seen many projects use this style in the last few years, and results so far have been positive, so much so that for many of our colleagues this is becoming the default style for building enterprise applications"
"Monolithic applications can be successful, but increasingly people are feeling frustrations with them "
Man, kind of resonates. Things like SOAP arguably trace back to a reasonable impulse followed with too much zeal.