You grossly over-simplify the problem though of when you're trying to consume part of a monolith without contributing to it. BFF can be a valid approach to maki

You grossly over-simplify the problem though of when you're trying to consume part of a monolith without contributing to it. BFF can be a valid approach to making a break. We also have 4 back-end teams and a poor release process, so for net-new projects this pattern has given teams a lot of deployment flexibility. It's definitely not cost-free, but I'd argue it's far less political than your inferred recommendation of "change the organizational structure to have a 'real' backend team".