Yes that would absolutely be easier - I don't understand why this is controversial? If you have a bunch of services, some of which are relevant, some are not,

Yes that would absolutely be easier - I don't understand why this is controversial? If you have a bunch of services, some of which are relevant, some are not, and domain knowledge is required to understand which to use at which times, then that problem exists independently of their names, as you say. Naming them after Pokemon obviously makes it more difficult to learn which is which; how can it not? Do you really think that user-provider-service, timestamp-conversion-service, image-storage-service is no easier to follow than bulbasaur, charmander, squirtle ? After ten minutes of 'eevee depends on charizard, which in turn requires mewtwo' I would be utterly lost.