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Modularly designed software, with appropriate boundaries can accomplish the same thing without the overhead of microservice deployments.

During the early stages where there is maybe 1-2 people coding, microservices add a lot of unneeded overhead and orchestration.

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It's also about the teams being independent of processes, stacks and tools. Usually monoliths have infrastructure, library and tools constraint that are hard o break.

Yes, microservices adds overhead in tooling. You have to measure carefully the trade-offs. It only pays off in a way larger scale than most of the organizations.

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