Exactly, I missed this completely in the article. In my experience, microservices attempt to solve organizational problems and not technical problems. There are technical downsides to microservices that may be outweighed by organizational benefits. With monoliths you might have a large amount of hidden opportunity cost that technically never surface.

I do agree that this is less of a problem for startups so it doesn't make sense to start with a complex microservice architecture. But in large organizations, especially corporates, it absolutely makes sense.