The times of development teams being small and colocated are long gone. Remote work and distributed development are a fact even in traditional office-based companies. Giants such as IBM, Microsoft, and Intel have people from different locations working together on a single project.
Microservices allow for smaller and more agile teams, which makes distributed development much easier. When it's no longer necessary to facilitate communication between a group of 20 or more people, it's also easier to build self-organized teams that require less external management.
