Hey @p I have a question.
Why are microservices still pushed so hard?

I know that g*ogle is pushing microservices hard internally, trains their own employees and when they leave that's all they know how to do. Add to that those aspiring to work at g*ogle and those aping g*ogle.
Still, github is filled with new projects about terraform, k8s, and many stand alone microservices (most of them close copies of one another) even after all these years that this trend has been going on.

1. As more people use the internet, the number of large websites increases, making certain niches that were deployed as part of a bigger system viable on their own. This is not true however for websites that will remain small-medium in size where microservices are too big of a hustle.
2. I've noticed the same people pushing for microservices, push for "immutable" OS type standarization.
3. Pretty sure gRPC is also a component of whatever is their end game.

I'm trying to figure out what's their end goal here, because all this seems planned and I don't think it's for the good of the open internet however much they say it is.
I thought you might know more since you've been observing the trend far longer than I have.