[Nextgrid]

That's often the case yes. In a monolith a developer disgruntled about the situation can clean up the mess in a weekend, test it and push it through. No chance of that happening in microservices - you'd run out of weekend just opening PRs in the dozens of repos and dealing with all the nitpicking and turf wars.

[butvacuum]

I've had the unfortunate experence to run into a situation where two dev's who hated eachother ended up building two systems with one passing the customer's API calls' http content directly to the front end... It was supposed to be back end and front end.