What specifically do they not solve? Because in this thread we're, very specifically, discussing isolating the well maintained monolith from risky product produced by consultants, which microservices absolutely do solve.

I think the hot trend these days is to bash on microservices. I hear that a lot here, random blogs, youtube videos by self proclaimed top guns.

If hacker news is correct, microservices is the #1 worst idea of software engineering.

And whoever promotes them is either a kid with no experience or a complete moron.

Well, speaking for myself, I was against them from the start. Maybe the rejection of distributed objects (when it came) was a hot trend also but it didn't make it wrong.

Any of the problem above.

If you have a problem with bad consultants then solve that. Trying to solve it by jumping into microservices you will just have bad consultants writing your microservices equally badly, or even worse.