You can build everything the wrong way.
In my experience making a monolith modular is organizationally easier than gluing together microservices and step on various toes and getting rid of needless abstractions.
Microservices if used sparingly in the right way are fantastic as they can offer flexibility in APIs that do not necessarily need a monolith obfuscating certain behaviors away from the monolith making the architecture more secure.
Everything needs to be purposefully built and used with the intention of serving the customer's needs without compromise.
