You don't have to use a service mesh. What you describe is not a service mesh. It's just a little weird to start your comment with "It pains me to see that the

You don't have to use a service mesh. What you describe is not a service mesh. It's just a little weird to start your comment with "It pains me to see that the concept of a service mesh often become Kubernetes centric" and then describe an architecture that doesn't have a service mesh.