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This is overstating. Monorepos have some terrible trade offs.

I think a monorepo works well for company cultures that have a lot of internal code, it works less well when you have a highly decentralized mode of operating (the whole point of microservices IMO) and a lot of shared externally written open source code. Repo sprawl isn’t an issue if you have known orgs - the security team’s CI/CD checks them all and files issues or PRs to them all.