That's exactly it. But when you start doing 'microservices' you get the architecture astronauts who go and see into how many silly little services a monolith can be broken up. The end results are as predictable as the original monolith, both end up as an unmaintainable mess in a couple of years.

I predict the same will happen to the 'superstar', it just isn't old enough yet (and at least it was built with some badly needed domain knowledge).