I didn't mean it as a completely blanket statement, hence why I said "generally". In my experience it's a lot harder to manage a contract between a db schema and multiple codebases over managing versioned contracts between APIs.

"It's better to just solve whatever problem you're facing in the simplest possible way."

I completely agree with this, but I dont beleive that syncronizing deployments across multiple services is ever simple - have been in this situation at a past company where it would take an entire week every 3 months to do a deployment