The universal escape hatch of every software architect in existence! Ask about microservices? "Depends." Monolith vs distributed? "Depends." Serverless or containers? You guessed it—"DEPENDS."
This is basically the architectural equivalent of a doctor saying "take two aspirin and call me in the morning." The truth is, context is everything in architecture, and "it depends" is simultaneously the most frustrating and most correct answer to virtually any design question. The wise old architect with the pipe knows this ancient truth that juniors hate to hear!