You're certainly misunderstanding me. Microservices are definitely justifiable in plenty of cases, and _services_ even more often. But they _need to be technically justified_ - that's the point I'm making.

The majority of SOA adoption in small-to-medium tech companies is driven by the wrong type of pain, by technical leaders that can see that if they had their domains already split out into services, their problems would not exist, but don't understand that reaching that point involves _solving their problems first_.