Comment by stavros

Having been on both sides, nope, it's 100% the devs pushing for this. I've had innumerable discussions trying to convince developers to simplify things, but their reaction was basically "how can we go against best practice?! Unthinkable!". It was a huge uphill battle.

Meanwhile, management didn't have an opinion, it was up to the teams to architect things how they liked, and they liked sprawling microservice everything, because they wanted to own 100% of their code, any other concern be damned.