The worst part of stories like this is how much potential there is in gaslighting you, the negative person, on just how professional and wonderful this solution is:

  * Information hiding by exposing a closed interface via the API
  * Isolated, scalable, fault tolerant service
  * Iterable, understandable and super agile

You should be a team player isophrophlex, but its ok, I didn't understand these things either at some point. Here, you can borrow my copy of Clean Code, I suggest you give it a read, I'm sure you'll find it helpful.