I never had strong feelings between microservice architecture and monoliths. It was always monorepos that bothered me, and their tendency towards brittle, highly-coupled, incestuous code.
Sample size of 1, but the most popular article on my blog is about to practically build a modular monolith. It was inspired by a Google paper published 2 years ago: Towards Modern Development of Cloud Applications[0] which touched on the shift from microservices to monoliths that can be deployed modularly.