[jsolson]

Yes; it enables tens of thousands of developers to work on a monorepo with billions of lines of code across over a billion files and generally be able to move between parts of that codebase without surprises. It promotes re-use, and simplifies refactoring useful utilities from one-shots into general libraries.

Speaking for myself as an engineer who works in that codebase, I rarely find it gets in my way, and when I've felt exceptions were the clearest/best approach, I've not found it burdensome or difficult to justify them.