Well, in today's world, whether it's a monolith, or composed of microservices, a system will be distributed across a network. That's just the world we live in, no question.

I think the material point is that microservices can have drawbacks just as any other architecture or technology can have drawbacks. Whether it's microservices, or monoliths, or functional programming, or whatever language people are pushing instead of C, whatever it is, there will be drawbacks. And I think people are speaking to their annoyance at other developers for not recognizing the drawbacks of various technologies.

(Interestingly, this probably means that the people advocating for those technologies also don't really have a good appreciation of the appropriate uses of the strengths of the technologies in question.)