Indeed! Our "architect" (cough) stuck us with mass microservices even though we are too small a group to need them. Bloatville. He kept quoting "separation of concerns" and other "magic Legos" abstraction/reuse/modularity BS memes. Plain ol' OOP classes do all the same.

I've been fighting to debunk it, but so far losing. It's more a case of momentum and if-aint-broke-dont-fix than logic so far. Nobody seems to want productivity enough yet to care, so if they pay me to mow the lawn with tweezers, I'll tweeze away...