You end up with a Frankenstein application where different product areas feel like they were built by entirely different companies. There's a real price to giving that much autonomy to each development. You want teams to be empowered, but there has to be ground rules. Having to unwind the "every team had all the freedoms" and having dozens of databases and hundreds of microservices makes implementing anything cross-cutting (auditing, analytics) a slow-as-molasses multi-quarter initiative.
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