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I think you missed the point. Whatever you call your code, monolith or microservice, it's still code and tomorrow or next year it will be legacy code. I'm not sure if the size of the codebase actually matters, developers just want to develop and will move on quickly to the next thing. It takes time and patience and persistence to maintain legacy code and the systems it's embedded in and it's far from sexy or exciting. The young dominate IT and are way more idealistic and filled with enthusiasm and new ideas than those of us who are getting on. They want to make their mark and solve the world's problems and that means more and more code! But new code! This new code will be better, you'll see.