True, true. That's a fairer way to formulate it. But like, it's supposed to be an extremely heavyweight architecture. The benefits of microservices are arguably only apparent when you have an ample team (or teams!) of competent full-time devs.
You're right they could have... beefed up the soda can, so to speak, but I don't blame the (presumably) DevRel folks who put this together for hand-waving it, "now imagine a mountain here".