[dahwolf]

"Splitting a system into subsystems allows each team to focus on their piece of the puzzle while minimizing the amount of peer-to-peer coordination."

The coordination is still there because a microservice team does not live in a vacuum. They build services based on demand from other teams that typically build web apps, mobile apps, sometimes server-to-server.

Hence, the "independent" team now becomes a roadblock for higher order features.