> you and the guy you are answering too are not talking the same language (technically yes but you are putting different meanings to the same words).

That's the point, isn't it? It's simply wrong to assert that there's a rush to distributed systems when they are already ubiquitous in the real world, even if this comes as a surprise to people like OP. Get acquainted with the definition of distributed computing, and look at reality.

The only epiphany taking place is people looking at distributed systems and thinking that, yes, perhaps they should be treated as distributed systems. Perhaps the interfaces between multiple microservices are points of failure, but replacing them with a monolith does not make it less of a distributed system. Worse, taking down your monolith is also a failure mode, one with higher severity. How do you mitigate that failure mode? Well, educate yourself about distributed computing.

If you look at a distributed system and call it something other than distributed system, are you really speaking a different language, or are you simply misguided?