Look, I generally prefer choreography over orchestration, too, but architectural dogma can conflict with pragmatism, and at a minimum Netflix’s argument as to why they found orchestration more usable at scale seems plausible enough for me not to reject it out of hand without experience with the two patterns at anything like Netflix scale.

Just like sometimes, in real-world C, “goto” is the right tool, even though arbitrary jumps of that kind are also a “recipe for spaghetti”.