The funny thing is that Martin Fowler had a First Law of Distributed Objects: Don't distribute your objects. But then he switched and helped popularize microservices (he's rowing back a bit nowadays).

I can only assume it's because he saw his clients doing it and for a consultant the client is always right. (And I think the client was doing it to indulge their hard to get developers who wanted complexity and the freedom to use their programming language of the week)

It feels like a cowboy industry when this is the 'leadership' we have.