> used regularly by only a couple hundred users > completely unnecessary microservices architecture for potential future scaling It sounds like the problem was

> used regularly by only a couple hundred users > completely unnecessary microservices architecture for potential future scaling It sounds like the problem wasn't architectural decisions at all. The problems listed are from engineers trying to build for growth that didn't happen. You can probably complain about those because they're your bailiwick. The root cause is not the engineering side of the house, though. What happened to the predicted growth? A decade ago?