Isn't there room for a middle ground with modularity that can live in between a full blown monolith or a full blown microservices pattern, particularly for operations that are more medium scale?
I really don't like the dogmatic view of architectures. Leaves no room for craftsmanship, and it's only really useful for creating code monkeys that have to follow a spec and need to be interchangeable cogs in the machine.
I think people sometimes forget that a healthy level of pragmatism is what keeps shipping. Just because someone said "microservices is the new all" you don't need to do it. Just because some said "monoliths are the future" it does not have to be true for you.
Take all these as case studies and solutions that apparently worked under specific conditions.