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I think it's due to people working in badly setup monorepos:

- CI/CD that runs on the entire thing

- merge policy that requires branch being up-to-date even for FF merges

  - I once spent an entire day trying to merge a PR because CI for other people changes was taking N minutes, but mine was N + 1 minutes. I kid you not, I resigned a week after that day because I just couldn't.

 - Messy organization within the repo

 - People wanted tag releases, so every single service within monorepo was on the same version and some of had months since last activity

 - Whole kitchen sink in one repo: terraform, Ansible, source code, fucking debian packages, secrets (sop) whatever else VPoE thinks is part of engineering.

 - include over an include in pipeline files (this was GitLab CI) that is impossible to navigate because of name collisions.

You gripes about many-repos are IMO wrong, though. If you have to duplicate things, then you're doing it wrong.