[mannyv]

If there are network problems everything fails anyway, so it's not really an issue in production.

In the end, it depends on your skillsets. Most developers can't deal with a lot of complexity, and a monolith is the simplest way to program. They also can't really deal with scale, and cost of learning how to build a real distributed system is high...and the chances you'll hit scale are low.

So instead people scale horizontally or vertically, with ridiculously complicated tools like k8. K8 basically exists outside of google because developers can't write scalable apps, whether monolithic or microservice-based.