I got same this feeling when reading the original white paper linked on the page[1]. It's filled with the kind of bloated abstract "consultant speak" chosen to mask relatively straightforward ideas. And then there is this casual claim at the end of the paper that IMO discredits everything preceding it[2]: "Luckily, building common infrastructure as a platform is a well understood and solved problem;"

[1]: https://martinfowler.com/articles/data-monolith-to-mesh.html

[2]: https://martinfowler.com/articles/data-monolith-to-mesh.html...

Reminds me of first OLAP cubes a lot, something that consultant online praise as much as possible, just so then 3-4 years later they are contracted by the company to fix the mess it created.