A lot of this first law was specifically coupled to how these systems often hid that distributed objects were distributed. In the past 10 years, async has become far more common place, and it makes the distributed boundary much less like a secret special anomaly that you wouldn't otherwise deal with and far more like just another type of async code.

I still thoroughly want to see capnproto or capnweb emerge the third party handoff, so we can do distributed systems where we tell microservice-b to use the results from microservice-a to run it's compute, without needing to proxy those results through ourself. Oh to dream.

Async fixes one problem with microservices. It does not fix the unexpected latency swings, the network timeouts and errors, the service disruptions when the microservice is unavailable, etc.