Tbf, this is a natural consequence of companies doing premature optimization / cargo culting. There are many, many reasons to NOT go into microservices. Kelsey Hightower had some thoughts on this [0] back in 2020.

You can run a hell of a lot off of a small fleet of beefy servers fronted with a load balancer, all pointing to one DB cluster.

[0]: https://changelog.com/posts/monoliths-are-the-future