We did have a lead with a vision, and part of the vision was standards for each service (for example, file structure in Go). I can see the rationale behind it;

We did have a lead with a vision, and part of the vision was standards for each service (for example, file structure in Go). I can see the rationale behind it; a new dev can onboard very quickly on to a new service. But in hindsight, maybe it wasn't thought out enough.