It's just about need. Most people don't need microservices. Let me repeat that. Most people don't need microservices. It's only relevant at scale. The scale I'm talking about is organizational scale and then potentially technical scale but it's mostly about solving people problems by enabling independent development of products and features.

Developers are their own worst enemy. They love shiny buzzwords and using unnecessary tools and concepts just to say they did. Conceptually you can't blame architecture patterns, that makes no sense. Blame those who choose to adopt patterns for the wrong reasons.