Was the rewrite to microservices really the problem here? I’ve worked on a few such projects too, where we decided to rewrite the application, but it never ended up replacing the old existing one. Technology was never the issue in all these.
Most likely not, the new guys were phd-types that was ultra smart but did nothing except have meetings. I think they were over-engineering it completely which made it impossible to deliver something of value.
However, I think that is often the case of a microservices architecture.
