This sounds like an issue with being able to articulate why something is or isn't going to net the expected benefits or being able to foresee unexpected risks. Keeping silent is better than throwing out silly hyperbole risks, but not bring up real risks because "they don't want to hear it" is completely bogus. Any solid engineer will bite at another potential risk to ensure they don't find themselves engineered into a corner 65% through a project. Your comment also makes it out like the notion the article is making, monolith over microserves, is gospel for every situation; that in no condition would it ever make sense to use microserves and that only naive zealots would espouse the wisdom (dogma) to use them. You can use any piece of technology poorly, that doesn't mean the core concept is flawed, just that your problem space is different than what that software is trying to solve. Consider using HDFS as a primary data store in place of MySQL where it doesn't make sense and you might cry the wisdom of wishing someone had told you HDFS is terrible and to just use the tried and true MySQL of olden days.