It doesn't matter CRUD, REST, 2PC, or middleware in general. From my PoV they're all technical solutions used to avoid deep modeling of the domain and its workflows, and instead trying to model the real world using generic primitives without understanding it first, or maybe with surface-level understanding only
Also, learning data engineering and BI helps one better model the real world than generic methods. It's somewhat similar to CQRS/ES, but with much more prior art
The dichotomy is generic vs custom/bespoke:
- generic (CRUD / REST / RDBMS+SQL+ACID Tx / Tx Scripts / 2PC / BPMN / Admin UIs) - also SmartUIs/Fat Clients (VB, Delphi, SPAs, etc.)
vs
- custom (DDD / CQRS/ES / Sagas / Process Managers / Durable Executions / TBUI)
Also, learning data engineering and BI helps one better model the real world than generic methods. It's somewhat similar to CQRS/ES, but with much more prior art