[lmeyerov]

Re:Branching, having lived this, monorepos are very much a blessing, not a curse.

If software is big enough to force considering monorepos, then cross-cutting dependencies will happen, and then one diffable long-lived monobranch is much better than a bunch of interleaved ones.

Incrementally building, landing, etc., cross-cutting deps becomes much less of a slog. Ex: skip concerns about versioning of _internal_ APIs.

The other issue I had was the sleight-of-hand on build modules. Yes, you don't need good devs to speed up incremental builds b/c you can search/build in each project. But if you want to run 20 modules together to test/experience them, good luck, esp. for interactive modes. (Congrats, you reinvented the monorepo!)