[gbog]

I'm sorry, I do not understand why you find this statement ridiculous (I'm not native English-speaker). Would you mind explaining a bit?

[kasey_junk]

Because we have decades of examples of monolithic apps more complicated than a to do list, but very little time with micro services.

If you honestly believe you can't write robust & scalable monoliths at all, that is an extreme position that is hard to square with many peoples experience.