It's a common microservice antipattern. When people go "yay microservices" but have no experience designing one, don't bring in people with that experience, and

It's a common microservice antipattern. When people go "yay microservices" but have no experience designing one, don't bring in people with that experience, and don't get lucky, they end up in the antipattern. It isn't inherent to microservices, but it is common enough that many people will work on a distributed monolith.