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Ive had a fair amount of low effort "big wins" in my career, simply by reversing the technical decision/implementation of people who took this idea too far. IMO the OP sits at a reasonable level on this particular "spectrum". The title is more controversial sounding than the post which itself is quite reasonable.

The implications of being tightly coupled to the (transactional) database are less onerous in a microservices environment where databases are "private" to a single application/service.