> The "micro" in "microservice" doesn't refer to how it is deployed, it refers to how the service is "micro" in responsibility.

The "micro" in microservice was a marketing term to distinguish it from the bad taste of particular SOA technology implementations in the 2000s. A similar type of activity as crypto being a "year 3000 technology."

The irony is it was the common state that "services" weren't part of a distributed monolith. Services which were too big were still separately deployable. When services became nothing but an HTTP interface over a database entity, that's when things became complicated via orchestration; orchestration previously done by a service... not done to a service.