"Why is it so hard to display the birthday date on the settings page? Why can't we get it done this quarter?"

"Look...I'm sorry, we've been over this, it's the design of our backend."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ

Totally agree. I don't see how microservices would solve this. Also monorepository doesn't mean that service is monolith.

You (correctly) assumed that it's a monorepo, by the way. But yeah, you're being reductive overall. It's not a "microservices vs monolith" debate. I was using this example to show that people can fuck up any model.

I agree that devs can and regularly do fuck up anything they touch.