Yeah, the previous company I worked for started with a Django monolith that someone had come in and taken an axe to essentially at random until there were 20 Django "microservices" that had to constantly talk to each other in order to do any operation while trying to maintain consistency across a gigantic k8s cluster. They were even all still connected to the same original database that had served the monolith!
Unfortunately my campaign of "what if we stuck all the django back together and just had one big server" got cut short by being laid off because they'd spent too much money on AWS and couldn't afford employees any more.
I had to chuckle, how ironic this is...
I worked on a project where they had 6 microservices with about 2-3 endpoints each and some of them would internally call other microservices to sync and join data. That was for 20 users top and managed by 1 team. The cloud bill was exciting to look at!
Unfortunately my campaign of "what if we stuck all the django back together and just had one big server" got cut short by being laid off because they'd spent too much money on AWS and couldn't afford employees any more.