[joshdick]

You're right, and I think you've highlighted what makes a good monolith so hard to build and maintain.

You need to be disciplined to keep a monolith highly modularized. For microservices, in contrast, their architecture encourages modularization.

[tinkertamper]

I don’t know that you need to be much more disciplined to write a large application in a module way vs writing any application in a modular way. A monolith could definitely get messy though if you write them how I see people write microservices.