>I spent a solid 3 years of my career attempting to make micro service architecture work in a B2B SaaS ecosystem. I have experience. This is not prejudice.

Yes, you do have experience, and it may not match others. Thats my point. At previous jobs, I had terrible microservice experiences, they were everything people complained about them to be. Yet, by setting that aside and really diving into evaluation on merits, I came around on the idea because I understand the failures of my previous experience came to misapplication of the concepts, not the concepts themselves.

Thats what we need more of, the kind of evaluation and reflection one should do when making these decisions (or being apart of a group that does) and I don't think we should discount our own experiences, we should strive to separate them from the concepts of appropriate technical decision making, lest we become overly biased for or against something.

>I don't see the meaningful difference between this and microservices.

The most obvious is the independence microservices have. They're truly independent. Sometimes that is exactly what you want