HDI does not have to have such small tracks...
HDI for the blind and buried via build is more cost effective than having drilled blind and buried vias due to the sequential build up of the layers.
I regularly do HDI designs where I still use trace widths between 8 and 4 thou depending on the complexity and requirements of the design, some might be a standard design where they can only get 1 device in a small BGA package, some are full blown components covering all the space on both sides of the board. I have used stacked microvia's with a full HDI build down to just the two outer layers being HDI layers the inner layers being standard and just about every combination in between, with both stacked and dog bone microvia's, via in pad, via not in pad.