> not sure what you're missing at this point.
We are talking with audience reading our comments. You think you are talking to me but you are talking to much wider audience.
Everyone, including me, are making some assumptions when we are writing something. When it is technical, it is easy to verify - obtain source code, run it, check results. When it is somewhat managerial, it is much harder to verify.
For example, original post emphasizing Stack Overflow being scaling monolith (pun intended) may refer to the point of time when SO were run by basically one man, yet scaling.
You dismiss it, that's okay. You do not answer my or OP points, that's okay too.
Our readers are smart enough to judge OP (and ours) points on their merits.