[acobster]

I've faced a similar situation, where a team I came to work on mid-project had designed a microservice architecture where a WordPress front-end talked to some "middleware" (a total misnomer since it was actually a REST API) which in turn talked to a bunch of other intermediate services which in turn talked to the CRM, an accounting system, and other third-party systems. Most of the "middleware endpoints" simply forwarded the calls to other services. Any feature that required a new endpoint usually meant deploying changes to three different systems.