^ all of this is true. I just meant that there's much less likely to be the RESTful equivalent of "method missing" or accessing somebody's __private_field__, hijacking their vtable pointer to redefine the method, etc. And by all means tell me your horror stories :)

or maybe put it this way: the big-ball-of-mud formed by metaprogramming tricks feels like it has boundaries that are permeable in a particularly arcane way, whereas the big ball of mud formed by microservices has boundaries that are permeable "merely" by distributing or spanning of both humans and logic.