Yeah, but very quickly in my experience the simple REST-based CRUD service starts waking up every 15 minutes to post a batch of rows from the database to a different REST-based CRUD service (or to itself if you have a monolith), and when that gets slow it gets scaled by increasing the wake-up frequency, and then someone starts writing batching logic and trying to scale it horizontally. Then external services start getting mixed in (and, if you're doing B2B, customer services) and you have to deal with their performance and reliability issues. Or maybe not; maybe you're Reddit and can get huge while still being essentially a CRUD app with a couple of UI front ends.