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You’re describing bad habits as if they’re a forgone conclusion. Repository-level separation between code makes certain bad habits impossible so a sloppy team will be more effective with many-repos because they physically can’t perform an entire class of fuck-ups but there’s lots of organisations where these fuck-ups… just don’t happen, and so the co-locating code in a monorepo isn’t a concern.

If your organisation can’t work effectively within a monorepo then you should absolutely address the problem, either by fixing the problematic behaviour or by switching away from a monorepo. The problem isn’t monorepos, the problem is monorepos in your organisation.