[throwanem]

Ideally a lot of things would be other than they are. There's a cogent argument to be made that the microservice architecture offers value in making a big ball of mud harder to create. Of course, there's also a pertinent question to be asked about whether one big ball of mud is really that much worse than several smaller ones flying in loose formation.

"It depends on the team" is probably about as close as it's possible to come to a single right answer here.

PS: I absolutely agree.