But it's funny. The transition to distributed/cloud feels like the rush to OOP early in my career. All of a sudden there were certain developers who would claim it was impossible to ship features in procedural codebases, and then proceed to make a fucking mess out of everything using classes, completely misunderstanding what they were selling.
It is also not unlike what Web-MVC felt like in the mid-2000s. Suddenly everything that came before was considered complete trash by some people that started appearing around me. Then the same people disparaging the old ways started building super rigid CRUD apps with mountains of boilerplate.
(Probably the only thing I was immediately on board with was the transition from desktop to web, because it actually solved more problems than it created. IMO, IME and YYMV)
Later we also had React and Docker.
I'm not salty or anything: I also tried and became proficient in all of those things. Including microservices and the cloud. But it was more out of market pressure than out of personal preference. And like you said, it has a place when it's strictly necessary.
But now I finally do mostly procedural programming, in Go, in single servers.
