Yeah, going down this path usually leads to a tightly coupled, monolithic-in-practice system of "microservices" which are effectively developed and operated lik

Yeah, going down this path usually leads to a tightly coupled, monolithic-in-practice system of "microservices" which are effectively developed and operated like the previous, monolithic system was, but with added overhead (both runtime and dev-time) on top for a layer that fakes loose coupling, with the sole actual reason for existence of this layer being that it allows people to call this abomination of an architecture "microservice-based".