Monorepo is great if you're really good
> the entire code base got forked, and the entire org is now held hostage by the dumbass.<p>> Of course in a Good team, needless dependencies would be weeded out in code reviews, and a Culture would evolve over time avoiding needless dependencies.<p>Really, the one consistent thing is that if you have a good team, you'll make it work no matter what tech or decisions you make (assuming you're also good enough to know when you've lost and change course), and if you're a bad team, you're doomed to failure, because, well, you're bad (by definition).<p>I think this article also vastly underestimates the cost and annoyance of the tooling of CI'ing a large number of repos, especially if you have to match or do some kind of cross product on the feature branches. (such as, repo A branch B can only be built with repo C branch F, but all the other repos should be master)