One of the author here. I definitely agree that you get markedly lower reliability and performance one you move a local function call to be remote. So, we're de

One of the author here. I definitely agree that you get markedly lower reliability and performance one you move a local function call to be remote. So, we're definitely not advocating that moving a local function call to be remote is inherently virtuous. However, I've found the abstraction to be useful when someone _has_ already made the decision to refactor their service out to be a separate service.