[mikeryan]

can't scale further before we have microservices.

Scale what? Load (Seems not)

Scale the team? This is often an overlooked aspect of microservices you're able to isolate the domain knowledge to smaller services and hire more specialized engineers who can focus on a specific silo of the app and only have to work to discrete APIs.

Scale features? There's a legit argument to be made that if you see yourself going to a microservice architecture in the future based on your current codebase or product roadmap that doing it sooner then later is always going to be preferable. The bigger the monolith the harder it is to unwind. It could also be that there's some tech debt that's something of a limiting factor, making the change in architecture could be an opportunity to address some of that.