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I agree that "easy to debug" is subjective. But it's insanity to act like that doesn't mean that some architectures are objectively easier to debug than others. How can splitting something up into different services and introducing network calls make it easier? You're not reducing complexity at all. It makes debugging harder.

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It would indeed be insanity to argue that, which is why I didn’t. The argument for splitting into micro services is generally that particular teams would own particular services and therefore make debugging/change easier for them, at the cost of increased overall complexity of the overall system. Anyone arguing it reduces complexity is being very hopeful.

I personally think an org should generally cling to a so called monolith as long as they possibly can. But it’s very hard to be prescriptive without knowing particulars of the problems an org is trying to solve.

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