"Microservices" is just a tool that can help a technology company scale. Like any tool, when used improperly or with the wrong architecture, can be very bad for those involved.

Given how many fail to implement it right, it would help if we had a paradigm that caused less failure, but I don't see the author recommending anything except for going back to monoliths. I understand their perspective but I'm not sure this is an either or scenario.

The solution is probably some new paradigm we haven't figured out yet.