Architecture reflects organization structure more often than not. What I see is not an attempt to handle requests rates, but an attempt to service a widely dist

Architecture reflects organization structure more often than not. What I see is not an attempt to handle requests rates, but an attempt to service a widely distributed set of applications and handle the inevitable churn of client applications requirements. I am on team monolith, but I also don't see any issue with this approach if you are happy accepting it's caveats and vendor lock in, which they it seems they were.